Michelle L. Cook is human rights lawyer born of the Honagháahnii (One Who Walks Around You) Clan of the Diné (Navajo) Nation. For several years, Michelle has worked locally and globally with indigenous peoples on issues such as access to justice, customary law, and human rights. She has received major grants and fellowship opportunities including a Fulbright Fellowship to study indigenous justice and customary legal systems in Aotearoa (New Zealand). She is a founding member of the Water Protector Legal Collective creating legal infrastructure for indigenous peoples encamped in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. She created an intersectional indigenous-led divestment campaign "The Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegation to Europe" calling for European banks and institutions to divest from companies industries that harm indigenous peoples and to support indigenous human rights and divestment from fossil fuels. Her work has been featured in Reuters and has she been interviewed by GLAMOUR, The Guardian, and Cultural Survival International. She has also has testified before UN bodies and representatives. She was appointed as a Commissioner on the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission and received her Juris Doctorate (J.D.) from the University of New Mexico School of Law with a certificate in Federal Indian law. She is a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) Candidate at the University of Arizona's Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. Her dissertation concerns the intersections of indigenous human rights, divestment, and gender in the United States. She lives and works in Arizona.