Sunny Dooley is a Diné storyteller born into the Saltwater Clan and born from the Water's Edge Clan. She one of the last traditional Diné storytellers, and has been telling the Diné Hozho (Blessing Way) stories for more than three decades. As a storyteller, Dooley shares stories that have been passed down through generations in her family. These stories present the worldview of the Diné people and details their relationship with their surroundings. She has retold these stories by oral tradition in Navajo and in English for a variety of organizations, universities, schools and conferences throughout the US, Canada, Africa, Europe and Mexico including the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, the Denver Arts Museum, and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture. Among her many accomplishments include winning the 1982 Miss Navajo pageant. In 2020, Dooley became the inaugural recipient of the Ploughshare Fund's Estrin Award for her work addressing the harms of nuclear history in Indigenous communities.