Tahlia Bear

Tahlia Bear is an enrolled member of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and Navajo originally from Arizona. She is the Senior Indigenous Peoples Engagement Manager for Western Resources Advocates, an advocacy organization that fights climate change and its impacts in seven Western states. In this role, she is responsible for leading the organization’s outreach and partnership efforts with Tribes focused on advancing clean energy, conserving water, and protecting lands. Tahlia has spent over a decade working in the nonprofit space for a variety of conservation and scientific organizations such as the National Wildlife Federation, the National Council for Science and the Environment, and the Geological Society of America. From 2023 to 2025 she was the Program Coordinator for the Indigenous Women’s Leadership Network, a catalyst program under the Water & Tribes Initiative supporting Indigenous women working on water and natural resource issues in the Colorado River Basin. Tahlia holds her bachelor’s degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a master’s degree from George Washington University.