Executive Director, Navajo Water ProjectDigDeep Right to Water Project
Emma Robbins is a Diné artist, activist, and community organizer with a passion for empowering Indigenous women. As Executive Director of the Navajo Water Project, part of the human rights nonprofit DigDeep Water, she is working to create infrastructure that brings clean running water to the one in three Navajo families without it. In addition to her water work, she is also the Founder of The Chapter House, an Indigenous arts space. Robbins completed her BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and studied Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art History in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is also an Aspen Institute Healthy Communities Fellow. Robbins splits her time between Los Angeles and the Navajo Nation.