June L. Lorenzo is Laguna Pueblo and Navajo (Diné) and lives and serves as the Cultural Sovereignty Director with the Association on American Indian Affairs. June has practiced law for over 40 years in Native Nation, state and federal courts, and has served as judge for six Native Nations. She has also served as an attorney for Navajo Nation and Laguna Pueblo, the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representative committees, the U.S. Department of Justice (voting rights litigation), and with an Indigenous NGO in land claims litigation. She has worked in human rights advocacy for Indigenous Peoples before the United Nations and the Organization of American States for over 25 years, including negotiation on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and the recently adopted World Intellectual Property Organization Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge. Belonging to a Native Nation affected by uranium mining, June works with community organizations to do education and advocacy work on uranium mining legacy issues and protection of sacred areas. She holds a Juris Doctorate from Cornell Law School and a Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University, and works in her home community of Laguna Pueblo.