Mona Polacca M.S.W. is a citizen of the Colorado River Indian Tribes of Parker, Arizona Her tribal lineage is of the Havasupai, Hopi, and Tewa tribes.  
Grandmother Mona is a leader in many Indigenous groups and organizations. She is a social, spiritual leader and activist, working to protect nature and water, peace, and the consciousness of oneness. She is a water woman and serves as the Treasurer of the Native American Church of Southern Arizona.  
She is a founding member of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers – whose mission is to preserve and protect Indigenous earth-based medicine.
She is the President of The Turtle Island Project, founded by Western practitioners and Native American healers who share a vision of health that blends the science of psychoneuroimmunology with Indigenous wisdom and practices. 
Mona currently works with the Indigenous Environmental Network – Indigenous Water Ethics Initiative. She serves on the Advisory Board of Notre Dame University, Law School – Religious Liberties Initiative, the Indigenous Medicine Conservation initiative, and Elder Advisor to Indigenous Alliance Without Borders.