Mary Hudetz (Apsaalooke/Crow) is IJA’s director of education and training. She brings nearly two decades of journalism experience to this role as an investigative reporter for ProPublica and The Seattle Times, an editor and reporter for the Associated Press and a past president of IJA. She also previously served as editor of Native Peoples Magazine.
Mary has been a vocal advocate for newsroom diversity and Indigenous representation in media for most of her career. Her reporting over the past decade on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s crisis for the AP and the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act at ProPublica has spurred state and federal policy changes. With colleagues, she has been a recipient of honors that have included the Dori J. Maynard Award for Justice in Journalism, IJA’s Richard LaCourse Award for Investigative Reporting, and a special citation from the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting at the University of Southern California.
At IJA, Mary is focused on setting long-term strategy for IJA’s student and professional development efforts. This work includes building support for the Indigenous Journalism Fellowship (IJF), the organization’s training program for college journalists. She’s also focused on programming that serves early- and midcareer storytellers working primarily in Indigenous-led newsrooms.