Wambli Quintana

Wambli Quintana is a senior at Dupree High School in South Dakota and a 2024 Champion for Change with the Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute. A Navajo and Lakota descendant who lives on the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Reservation, his platform focuses on expanding opportunities in sustainable energy and green practices for tribe’s people and land to promote sovereignty. Wambli served on the Cheyenne River Youth Project’s Youth Advisory Council for 2023 and is engaged in its Growing into Wowachineyepi program. He is actively involved in the National Honor Society and academics in school, and he explores his STEM interests through the American Indian Science and Engineering Society.