NDN Collective Grantmaking & Fellowship

Dr. PennElys Droz (she/her), Power Building & Curriculum Coordinator , Anishinaabe, and Wyandot descendent, has worked in Indigenous engineering and regenerative development for over twenty years, with the vision of the re-development of thriving ecologically, culturally and economically sustainable Native Nations; specializing in renewable energy, natural building, ecological wastewater treatment, whole-systems community infrastructure planning and design, and regenerative economy mapping.

PennElys holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Resource Engineering from Cal Poly Humboldt and a PhD in Biocultural Engineering Design, American Indian Studies from University of Arizona.

She is a founding board member of Sustainable Nations, an Indigenous regenerative community development organization.

A mother of five, she is committed to decolonial education and parenting that supports the reconnection of people with Land.