Co-Director

Tracker Ginamarie Rangel Quinone is an Intertribal Media journalist field reporter continuing the action to inspire and educate. She is involved with organizations and communities across Turtle Back Island in solidarity with Global allies……..

Tracker is a Community Leader and advocate for the elders and teachings. She is a facilitator of workshops and travels extensively to speak for communities bringing the voice for the people .

“WE STAND STRONG IN SOLIDARITY WITH OUR INTERTRIBAL RELATIVES, WHO HAVE BEEN RELOCATED , DISLOCATED, FORCED INTO ASSIMILATION .” -TGMQ

Co-Director

Kalonji Jama Changa is an award-winning political activist and nationally recognized grassroots organizer. He is the founder of the FTP Movement and Black Power Media, focused on building power for Black liberation and social justice.

His work centers on fighting police violence and advocating for political prisoners. Changa helped lead campaigns for Troy Anthony Davis and Kathryn Johnston and has supported high-profile cases including Leonard Peltier, Jeff Fort, Jamil Al-Amin, and Mumia Abu-Jamal. He serves as Co-Director of the Leonard Peltier Official Support Committee and as Chief Consultant for Movement Building and Community Engagement at For The People Law Firm.

Changa is the author of How to Build a People’s Army and co-editor of Revolution in These Times (2025). His writing appears in Beyond Cop Cities (2024), the forthcoming Confronting Counterinsurgency (2025), and Harvard Law’s Inquest Magazine. He is also a filmmaker, media producer, and political analyst featured on CNN, Democracy Now!, Press TV, and KPFA’s Hard Knock Radio.

Ward Churchill was a member of the Leadership Council of Colorado AIM from 1980-2009 and a national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee during the mid-90s.

The author or editor of more than 20 books and well over a hundred articles, he was professor of American Indian Studies and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder until his retirement in 2007.

DescriIn 1993, Suzie Baer completed her first feature documentary film Warrior, The Life of Leonard Peltier, currently regarded as the most comprehensive and well researched film on Leonard Peltier, a American Indian Movement activist who remains incarcerated today. This award winning film aired on National Public Television and was screened theatrically in art houses around the country.  

Baer’s filmography includes producing a short film, Joe, selected for competition at the Cannes Film Festival; and the documentary film War Zone, which was used by the US Department of Defense to educate soldiers about sexual harassment. 

Baer is the author of, Peru’s MRTA: Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, a detailed account of the group’s fight for social justice and the many challenges they faced. She spent the past 3 years working with Moms United For Black Lives (a Black woman led, community based organization, fighting for Black liberation).

Spiritual Advisor

Lenny Foster (Navajo), who has served as Leonard Peltier’s spiritual advisor for several decades, submitted a written statement during the two-week-long the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII):

My name is Lenny Foster, and I am of the Towering House clan born for Mountain Cove, originally from Fort Defiance, Arizona. I am a citizen of the Navajo Nation, and I have been a spiritual advisor for Leonard Peltier since March 1985 when I started visiting him at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. My specific duties with him have been conducting sweat lodge ceremonies and pipe ceremonies. My prayers have been to sustain his sanity, for spiritual cleansing and purification, and to help him enhance his humanity and remain spiritually strong.

Secretary

Paulette Dauteuil was involved in revolutionary politics since the mid-60s. She was a member of Venceremos Brigade from Chicago in 1976 and an organizer of Prairie Fire Org. Comm, chapter Los Angeles Ca. 76-79. She became part of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee in LA and, with Robert Robideau, organized the Los Angeles defense trial of Leonard Peltier after his escape from Lompoc Federal Prison. They put together for 3 months 3 defense houses and raised enough money to feed all the Native People and activists who participated during his trial.

She was Office Manager & Editor of “In the Spirit of Crazy Horse” at the Leonard Peltier Defense Comm. in Lawrence KS. and Portland, Or; and recently completed 6 months as Office Manager in the National Office in Fargo, No. Dakota.

Currently a member of the Plaid Dragon Collective (1985-), the former Co-Chair (2010-2012) and National Secretary (2012-2014), and serve on the Advisory Board of the Jericho Movement for Amnesty for Political Prisoners and POW’s. Currently she is doing lobby work in Washington D.C. for Leonard Peltier’s clemency campaign and for treatment of his health issues, and will be doing the same for Jericho Federal Prisoners.

Social Media/Activist

Opium Sabbah brings a rich and diverse musical legacy to his music. Son of the legendary Cheb i Sabbah, Opium Sabbah was raised listening to the spiritually rich and exotic music of India and North Africa. He watched and listened as his father pioneered a new genre of world music, and was introduced to musicians, vocalists and producers who would later influence his own musical career, such as Shukhwat Ali Khan, Cheb Khaled, Hassan Hakmoun, and many others.

However, growing up in San Francisco, California would introduce Opium Sabbah to Hip-Hop culture, and Rap Music, where Opium first emerged as a graffiti artist, then as an Emcee making waves and an impression on stages in venues from San Francisco to Morocco to India, performing alongside artists such as Raekwon and DJ Quick.

Opium is also the Co-Chair of Oakland Jericho, a national movement helping political prisoners and their families worldwide, as well as Leonard Peltier’s Ad Hoc Committee and Oso Blanco’s C.A.P (Childrens Art Project)

Junior Assistant
JoAnn Summerson is Junior Assistant to Leonard Peltier.

Treasurer

Dawn is an author and artist who lives in Northern California. She has various semi-useful skills, such as sharing coffee with a camel and correctly cooking with an iron in a federal penitentiary.