Heather Whiteman Runs Him is a citizen of the Apsaalooke/Crow Nation and Director of the Tribal Justice Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, where she teaches courses on tribal water rights, tribal courts, and tribal law. Her legal career has been devoted to public interest advocacy and rights protection for Indigenous Peoples, including work as an attorney at the Native American Rights Fund, as in-house counsel for her own Tribe, and as an assistant public defender for the State of New Mexico. Her recent scholarship and advocacy work addresses pressing questions at the intersection of federal Indian law, water security, and Indigenous self-determination — including the impacts of tribal water rights settlements, sacred lands protections, the ongoing vitality of treaty rights, the impacts of past federal assimilation policies, and water security in Indian Country. Heather has served on the Arizona Civil Rights Advisory Committee, the Southwestern Intertribal Court of Appeals, as a board member of the Agua Caliente Water Authority, as a North America representative on the Indigenous Coordinating Body on Enhanced United Nations Participation for Indigenous Peoples, and in leadership of the University of Arizona Native Faculty organization. She is admitted to practice before the State Bar of New Mexico, the Ninth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.