IJA Executive Officers
Angel Ellis – Vice President
Angel Ellis is a Citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and has lived, worked, and played within the tribes’ reservation boundaries most of her life. Growing up, her heroes had press passes rather than capes and inspired her to…
Joseph Lee – Treasurer
He is the author of the nonfiction book Nothing More of This Land. He was previously a Senior Indigenous Affairs Fellow at Grist. His work has also been published by The New York Times, The Guardian, High Country News and others.
Roselynn Yazzie – Secretary
Roselynn Yazzie, an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and Diné, brings nearly two decades of journalism and Indigenous media experience to her role as a member of the Indigenous Journalists Association Board of Directors. For 19 years, she…
Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi, Diné, is the Indigenous Affairs Editor at High Country News. She has reported for the Navajo Times, the Osage News, The Guardian, USA Today, Rolling Stone, The New York Times and others. Clahchischiligi’s work has won…
IJA Board of Directors
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Alyssa London
She belongs to the Eagle-Killerwhale Clan within Tlingit society, with family roots in the Killerwhale Chasing Seal House of Angoon, Alaska. Her Tlingit name is Yáx̱ Ádi Yádi, meaning Valuable Child, honoring Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) activist Amy Hallingstad.…
Angel Moore
Angel’s community is the Peguis First Nation, is a video journalist with APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) the world’s first Indigenous owned and operated network, covering the Atlantic region including Labrador, Angel is based in Kjipuktuk (Halifax) Nova Scotia,…
Bryan Pollard
Bryan is the senior manager for philanthropic development at The Associated Press where he manages the company’s growing grant portfolio. Bryan is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the former executive editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native…
Eden Fineday
Eden Fineday is a nêhiyaw iskwêw (Cree woman) from Sweetgrass First Nation in Treaty 6 territory, near North Battleford, Saskatchewan. She is the publisher of IndigiNews and co-founder of tâpwêwin media, an Indigenous media nonprofit rooted in the Cree…
Melissa Greene-Blye
Melissa Greene-Blye (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma) worked as an anchor and reporter for 20 years in the news business, covering local news in television markets big and small. She enjoys using her knowledge and experience to educate the newest…
Staff
Rebecca Landsberry-Baker – Executive Director
Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is a citizen of the Muscogee Nation and executive director of the Indigenous Journalists Association. She is a recipient of the 2018 NCAIED “Native American 40 Under 40” award, the 2023 Local Champion Award from the Reporters…
Francine Compton – Associate Director
Francine Compton joins IJA from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where she served as a producer for CBC Indigenous in Winnipeg. Before CBC, Compton served as executive producer for the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, APTN National News for eastern Canada…
Sheena Roetman-Wynn – Director of Membership
Sheena Roetman-Wynn, Lakota/Muscogee, is the Director of Membership for the Indigenous Journalists Association. Previously, Roetman-Wynn spent six years as director of membership and programs at the Atlanta Press Club, where she also ran APC’s annual internship program and assisted…
Shirley LaCourse Jaramillo – Fund Development Director
Shirley has worked for Native-led organizations for 25 years in various capacities, including organizational leadership, development and program development, management, evaluation and oversight. She is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation, and is a descendant of the Oneida,…