Julia Bernal is an enrolled tribal member at Sandia Pueblo but is also from Taos Pueblo and the Yuchi-Creek Nations of Oklahoma. She advocates for the decolonization of water policy and stolen water resources. She has helped the Pueblo Action Alliance build campaigns against carbon pricing, fracking 101 education, and the reclamation of indigenous water management practices. She is a Masters' candidate in Water Resources Policy Management and in Community Regional Planning at the University of New Mexico.