Isabel A Huot-Link

Isabel has a background in community education, focused in art and language with institutions including the Fulbright Association and Saint Paul Public Schools, and currently serves as a regional Leadership and Civic Engagement Educator with University of Minnesota Extension. She has a B.A. in Theater from the College of Saint Benedict -- the cite of a former mission school -- and a Master of Human Rights degree with a concentration in the political ecology of education from the University of Minnesota. Her Master's research focused on implementing Indigenous research methodologies in land grant university education. 

Isabel's research interests include implementing Indigenous and diverse ways of knowing in education as a means to decolonize/Indigenize institutions, interrogating policing and community safety, as well as increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and justice in White and rural communities in Minnesota. She contends with queer ecologies, political ecologies, and education within movement spaces.

Huot-Link, I. (2023, May 4). “How an Apocalypse Can Save the World: Indigenous knowledges are transforming the future,” Age of Awareness, Medium.

Huot-Link, I., Myers, A. R., Topete, S. (2023, February 13). “Activists face police surveillance outside protest settings in Minnesota.” Open Global Rights.

Huot-Link, Isabel. (2022, Spring). “The Future Unsettled: A Multi-Scalar Framework for Decolonization in the United States.” Humphrey Public Affairs Review, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 27-30.

Input for the High Commissioner for Human Rights:

Adema, B., Dwyer, K., Fried, O., Hulmequist, R., Huot-Link, I., Makari, D., Myers, A. R., Topete, S. (2023, April 17). "Written Submission of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Program for the 2023 report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 47/21." Input for the High Commissioner’s 2023 report, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 47/21. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/racism/cfis/res4721/NGO-University-of-Minnesota-Human-Rights-Program_0.pdf

Adema, B., Dwyer, K., Fried, O., Hulmequist, R., Huot-Link, I., Makari, D., Myers, A. R., Topete, S. (2023, March 17). “Written submission of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Program on combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and related practices to the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” Input for the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism’s report, pursuant to the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council. 

Adema, B., Dwyer, K., Fried, O., Hulmequist, R., Huot-Link, I., Makari, D., Myers, A. R., Topete, S. (2023, February 24). “Written submission of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Program to the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement,” Input on Upcoming Country Visit to the United States of America by the United Nations International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement from 24 April – 5 May 2023. 

Adema, B., Dwyer, K., Fried, O., Hulmequist, R., Huot-Link, I., Makari, D., Myers, A. R., Topete, S. (2023, February 6). “Written submission of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Program on law enforcement surveillance and harassment of anti-police brutality human rights defenders in Minnesota to the Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association,” Input for the Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association’s report, pursuant to the 53rd session of the Human Rights Council. 

Huot-Link, I., Myers, A. R., Pacheco-Chamberlain, N., Shannon-Tamrat, S., Sullivan, P., Topete, S. (2022, May). “Law Enforcement Surveillance and Harassment of Anti-Police Brutality Human Rights Defenders Outside of Protest Settings in Minnesota,” Input for the High Commissioner’s 2022 report, pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 47/21. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/issues/racism/wgeapd/cfi-res-47-21/submissions/2022-09-14/University-of-Minnesota-Submission-NGO-PAD-hrc51-A-HRC-51-53.pdf