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Pamela Kraft is the executive director of the Tribal Link Foundation, a nongovernmental organization that was founded in 1993 and aims to link indigenous people to networks that can help their causes, with a special focus on the United Nations system.

Kraft has been a member of the NGO Committee on the UN International Decade of the World’s Indigenous Peoples since 1995; she is also a coordinator of the Commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People and serves on the Technical Advisory Committee of the Equator Prize of the UN Development Program's Equator Initiative. Kraft has worked with the secretariats of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, as well as other UN agencies. She has served on the boards of Cambodia Living Arts Program and the United Nations Association of the USA.