Leala Pourier
Leala Pourier
Earth Guardians Youth Council Member
Earth Guardians Social Media Manager
Leala Pourier is a youth activist and college student. Born and raised in Colorado, she is Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne River and their family is from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
Leala currently attends the University of Denver and is double majoring in Creative Writing and Strategic Communications. She has served as Lead Youth Mentor and Director of Programming for Stronghold Society, which promotes physical and mental health and healthy lifestyles for both Native and non-Native communities, since they were 15. They have recently been working as the Social Media Manager for Earth Guardians and She serves on the Earth Guardians Youth Council.
As a youth organizer, Leala helped plan and presented at the Zero Hour Rally in Denver, speaking about the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women surrounding oil drill sites. While still in high school they helped plan a Day of Dialogue on environmental degradation at her school and led the workshop with the largest attendance rate of the event.
Leala has spoken on several panels, including speaking about diversity and stereotypes at Denver Comic Con, indigenous representation in the mainstream media at Indigenous Pop X, and at the Native Student Conference at the University of Southern California on being an Indigenous student in higher education.