Emma Robbins

Chief Executive Officer & President

Emma Robbins (Diné) is an artist, activist, and community organizer with a passion for empowering Indigenous women and femme-identifying individuals. In her previous role as Managing Director of Planet Women, Emma was responsible for managing the growing team and creating a compassionate and effective workplace that models a new paradigm of leadership in the environmental movement.

Prior to joining Planet Women Emma served as the founding Executive Director of the Navajo Water Project from 2016-2023. Under her leadership, the project worked to provide clean, running water to families across the Navajo Nation, targeting a significant infrastructure gap affecting one-third of families on the reservation.

In 2020 Emma founded The Chapter House, an Indigenous community hub based in Los Angeles bringing Indigenous Peoples and their allies together for free arts programming, centered around wellness Indigenous joy.

Emma completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied Modern Latin American Art History in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Through her artwork, she strives to educate viewers about issues like broken treaties and the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women crisis. Emma serves on the Arizona Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and is a senior Aspen Institute Fellow.