Emily Levang is an essayist, poet, mentor and ritual curator.

Her work evokes our human interconnectedness with the elements, and invites us to deepen our relationship with nature. It is through this love that we each find our unique way of being in reciprocity and care with the living world. 

Emily’s primary focus is protection and care for water, and in particular the Lake Superior watershed, which holds 10% of our entire world’s fresh surface water. 

Growing up in the woods near the headwaters of the Great Lakes, this place was Emily’s friend and teacher. As an adult, she experienced how our relationships with nature are so often severed, and how that disconnect is a source of both pain and harm. She was called to begin unraveling internal patterns of colonization, and to re-establish intimacy with the living world, both lifelong practices. 

Emily currently lives in Duluth, Minnesota, on Anishinaabe and Dakota land. Emily is the Creative Program Director for the Rights of Nature group, Waankam: People for the Estuary, which is working to raise awareness about the St. Louis River Estuary’s inherent right to exist, thrive, flourish, and regenerate. This body of water — Gitchi-gami-Ziibi—is the largest tributary to Lake Superior, and is vitally important both ecologically and spiritually. 

She is available for writing projects that prioritize environmental solutions rooted in decolonization and sacred kinship with the Earth.