Emma Robbins

Managing Director

Emma Robbins (Diné) is an artist, activist, and community organizer with a passion for empowering Indigenous women. As Managing Director of Planet Women, Emma is responsible for managing the growing team and creating a compassionate and effective workplace that models a new paradigm of leadership in the environmental movement. She oversees operations, marketing, fundraising and programs, and collaborates with the CEO and Board of Directors to ensure that Planet Women achieves its mission to partner with women to care for the planet. 

Prior to Planet Women, Emma was Executive Director of the Navajo Water Project at DigDeep Water for seven years. While there, she collaborated with communities to expand access to clean, running water to the one in three Navajo families without it. Since 2016, the Navajo Water Project has benefited thousands of Navajo Tribal Members across Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.

Emma is a trained artist and completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied Modern Latin American Art History in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has exhibited both in the U.S. and internationally. Through her artwork, she strives to educate viewers about issues like broken treaties and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis.

Emma also founded The Chapter House in 2020 to provide a place for Indigenous Peoples and allies to appreciate art, convene and collaborate, celebrate individual and shared Indigenous cultures, and explore the complexities of the 21st Century Indigenous experience.