Ben Powless is a 22-year-old Mohawk from Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. He is a leader in his own right in making connections between social empowerment, specifically with aboriginal communities, and ecological crusading. Working with the Indigenous Environment Network, he has represented indigenous youth at various international events, most recently at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's High-Level Conference on World Food Security, Climate Change and Bio-energy. Powless also sits on the board of the Nations Council for the Canadian Environmental Network and is apart of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition since its inception, working at both the national and Ottawa chapter level. He has spent a year in 2007 in an international exchange program studying sustainable rural development between Alberta and Mexico. Currently, Powless studies Human Rights and Environmental Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa. And he aspires to eventually work in national and international issues involving indigenous rights, human rights and their interplay with the environment.More on Ben Powless
- Rabble.ca: Benjamin Powless - A Young Activist's Journey
- The Dominion: Survival is Non-Negotiable! (Article by Powless)
-Rabble.ca: Ben Powless Blogs
-Transnational Institute: Eyewitness to the G8 protests in Japan (Article by Powless)
