Dalee Sambo Dorough

Dalee Sambo Dorough
Born1959 Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
OccupationTeacher, jurist, political scientist Edit this on Wikidata
Awards
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2023) Edit this on Wikidata

Darlene "Dalee" Sambo Dorough (born 1959) is an Iñupiaq advocate for Indigenous rights as well as an expert in international human rights law, international relations, and Alaska Native rights. Dorough was part of the Alaskan tribal sovereignty movement for decades and served on the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues from 2011 to 2016. In 2018 she was elected Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, representing the 180,000 Inuit, Yupik, and Chukchi peoples in the Russian Far East, Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.