Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist who specializes in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine, and materials. Linda works to build capacity in her community and beyond, promoting and protecting traditional plant knowledge and environmental quality as an extension of the fight against extractive industry. Linda proudly serves as the educational programming and community engagement director at NATIFS - a Native-led, food sovereignty-focused nonprofit in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She also sits on the board of Makoce Ikikcupi, a reparative justice project on Dakota lands in Mnisota Makoce. She spends her free time with her husband and three sons, who are all citizens of the Oceti Sakowin. (Hohwožu Otunwe, Minnesota)