Director
CurrentJudith LeBlanc, Director, Native Organizers Alliance is an enrolled member of the Caddo Tribe of Oklahoma. The Native Organizers Alliance is a training and organizing network supporting Native organizers, tribal governments, and Native-led non-profits through strategic campaign planning and capacity-building training. It provides a forum for Native organizers and organizations to work across communities in Indian Country, share best practices and elevate local work among national non-Native allies. Judith co-led the Natives Vote Campaign 2020 with Crystal Echohawk, director of IllumiNative, working in 9 states with tribal leaders and community groups to help mobilize the largest Native vote in history.In 2020, NOA partnered with Illuminative and Center for Native American Youth to create the first-ever Native created survey of tribal and Native communities. The survey engaged members of over 400 tribes, all 50 states sampling urban, rural, and reservation populations.Judith co-chaired the 2016 Fertile Ground Planning Committee and co-edited the Fertile Ground II Growing the Seeds of Native American Health Report. In the early 1970s, Judith worked on behalf of the Wounded Knee Defense/Offense Committee on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In 2002, Judith became a nationally recognized leader in the U.S. peace movement — a central organizer for numerous campaigns and mobilizations as a national co-chair of United for Peace and Justice, a national network of over 1,000 labor, community, and faith organizations. From 2008-2015, she was the National Field Director of Peace Action, one of the oldest grassroots peace groups in the U.S. She led the Move the Money Campaign: a grassroots organizing campaign and national coalition effort to engage labor and community groups in projects for a just transition from dependency on the Pentagon budget for good-paying jobs to a new, sustainable green economy.
