John Echohawk is the executive director of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF). He has worked with the Department of the Interior, the Western Governors Association, the Western States Water Council, the Conference of Western Attorneys General, the Western Business Roundtable, the National Congress of American Indians and the Joint Federal Tribal Water Funding Task Force to promote favorable Indian water rights settlement policies. He was also appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Western Water Policy Review Commission. He serves on the Boards of the American Indian Resources Institute, the Association on American Indian Affairs, the Indigenous Language Institute, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. 

“I am proud to work on all the water issues that the Water Foundation addresses which include tribal water issues.”