Bradley McGilvary Pitts
(Clan MacGillivray settler, USA)
Lead Steward
A father, husband, artist, and teacher born and raised in Manhattan while spending summers in the woods of southern Appalachia. Bradley has a diverse background including aerospace engineering and a 20+ year sculpture and installation art practice. In 2022 he founded PLaCE as part of his focus on repairing human-wild relationships through an expansive, intersectional approach to land stewardship which incorporates Indigenous justice, renewable energy, affordable housing, regenerative agriculture, and habitat restoration.
Pitâêpanuhkiw Lucy Grignon
(Stockbridge-Munsee Community/USA)
Traditional Knowledge Partner
Lucy is an enrolled member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Nation and a direct descendant of the Menominee Nation — Muh-he-con-ne-ok being of the People of the Waters that are never still, and Menominee being of the Ancient Movers. Her family owns an Indigenous Homestead called Ancient Roots in Bowler, Wisconsin. They are working to reconnect to their cultural inheritance through the land, plants, medicines, and wildlife.
Jacqueline Horani
Legally Unconventional
General Council
Jacqueline is dedicated to rooting out exploitation and oppression from our business practices, our contracts, and ourselves. Her legal experience weaves together contracts law, plain language law, data security / privacy law, intentional communities law, tenant rights law, visual design / user experience, employment law, human rights law, and not-for-profit and corporate law to help her clients navigate a rapidly changing reality. By naming power dynamics, centering genuine informed consent, and increasing access-to-justice she helps restore clients' sovereignty in decision-making and alignment in right relationship. Jacqueline works with activists, creative artists, organizations, and entrepreneurs dedicated to a future of collective liberation.
Yuhyehaká'ne' Rachel Hill
(Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Tuscarora/USA)
Many Rivers Law, Tribal & Property Law Council
Rachel is an enrolled member of the Tuscarora Nation (Beaver Clan), and a licensed attorney and Real Estate Broker in New York. Her name, Yuhyehaká'ne', means "She has many rivers," a reflection of the waterways that shaped her upbringing on the Tuscarora Nation territory, near Niagara Falls, and the confluence of knowledge streams that define her practice. Her legal experience spans federal Indian law, environmental regulation, and property law. Many Rivers Law exists to support Indigenous sovereignty in all its forms. No matter the project, the commitment remains the same: accessible legal support that honors Indigenous values and creates pathways forward.
