Krystal Moreno

Krystal Moreno is the Program Manager of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) for the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. Her role as TEK Program Manager includes assisting tribal leadership and the community on cultural revitalization efforts, native plant restoration, eco-cultural restoration, and water protection. She is passionate about advocating for tribal water rights, protecting the waterways and species connected to them, and honoring the responsibility of healing and protecting tribal eco-cultural landscapes.

Her work includes teaching and sharing the ways ancestral homelands and waterways have historically been and continue to be utilized and tended to by indigenous people. Krystal’s main priority has been engaging in tribal water advocacy & policy initiatives, including protection of the Sacramento Delta Estuary and Bay-Delta Watershed, conducting water quality analysis and native plant restoration efforts along the Sacramento, American, and Feather Rivers. She also works with government agencies to encourage robust inclusion, engagement, and consultation with tribes, incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge into policy-making, and tribal consultation best practices.

Before becoming Program Manager of TEK, Krystal served as the Tribe’s Tribal Court Administrator, helping to create the Tribe’s first tribal justice system. She has also worked as a Legislative Advocate on various issues, including women’s health care, children’s health care, and on behalf of community clinics and health centers. She is of Yaqui and Kumeyaay decent, is a citizen of the Texas Band of Yaqui Indians and is honored to be able to work within California tribal communities.