Ariel Clark (she/they) is an Odawa Anishinaabe attorney working in collaborative spaces of intersection, (re)emergence and re-storying. Like her Spirit name, Eddewagiizhig Kwe, Both Sides Of The Sky Woman, Ariel’s work weaves through ways-of-knowing, being and relating. Among their many circles of community, Ariel collaborates with various organizations to support land-based projects across Turtle Island that center human beings’ (re)union with land and our more-than-human relatives. Among them, Roots To Sky Sanctuary, a BIPOC-stewarded, land-based healing, and community project, and Life Comes From It, a grassroots-directed grantmaking organization. She is a peacemaker-in-training and studies Indigenous peacemaking and Anishinaabe law from Elders. She recently completed a Listening To The Land project, set to be published in Spring 2025, and was just awarded funding to support the preservation of knowledge in her own Native community. Ariel is Turtle Clan, and is an enrolled Tribal citizen of Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa & Chippewa Indians.

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