Ella
Weber

Ella is a High Meadows Climate and Conservation Policy Fellow. She is an enrolled citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation and a descendant of the White Earth Nation. Ella graduated from Princeton University in 2025 where she studied Public and International Affairs and Native American and Indigenous Studies. At Princeton, her thesis interrogated the National Environmental Policy Act and its environmental and racial justice implications for nuclear weapons development. She has worked for the Nuclear Princeton research project to document the impact of nuclear development on Indigenous lands across the country, and produced a podcast about the nuclear missiles stationed on her Tribe’s reservation lands in collaboration with Scientific American called ‘The Missiles on Our Rez.’ This summer, Ella interned with the Hawaiian Council in Kapolei, Hawai’i where she supported policy advocacy in support of Native Hawaiian affairs. In her free time, Ella enjoys doing puzzles and spending time with her cat, Koda.