Ruth Łchavaya K’isen Miller is a Dena'ina Athabaskan and Ashkenazi Jewish woman, raised in Dgheyay Kaq, Alaska. She is a member of the Curyung Tribe of Dillingham, though her family is from Kijik village from the Lake Clark region. She graduated from Brown University, receiving a BA in Development Studies with a focus on Indigenous resistance. She has worked many years towards climate justice and regenerative economies, including international advocacy, national policy leadership and local community roles. She served as Climate Justice Director for Native Movement for a number of years, is a founding member of the Fireweed Collective, a statewide alliance of politically-minded young Alaskans. Ruth is a daughter, an aunty, a public speaker, a language learner, a traditional beadworker, and a singer.

Now she turns her energies toward ancestral healing, time on the land, and cultural arts as she intertwines advocacy with self-expression, spiritual exploration, and liberatory joy. She is also pursuing a number of writing projects at this time.