Denise Bright Dove Ashton-Dunkley

Denise is an award winning Master Artisan and Educator of Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape culture. A member of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation of New Jersey, she actively educates other members and the public about Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape culture, past and present. Denise is passionate about environmental and climate change activism, as well as MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) awareness. She is a student at the University of Oklahoma School of Law working towards a Masters in Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples’ Law.

Denise is a part of the artist team for Climate Justice Initiative mural and a narrator on the Change for Climate is Here mural animation.