Christine Trudeau, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, is an independent investigative journalist and editor, whose work can be found in High Country News, National Native News, Alaska Public Media, and NPR. She is the current Vice President of the Native…

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…

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye is the editor and vice president of digital at ICT, formerly Indian Country Today. She is the first woman to be the chief news executive and top editor of the 42-year-old newspaper. She is a Diné citizen…

Savannah is an Albuquerque-based reporter with the national public radio show Marketplace where she covers rural and Indigenous economies. She got her start reporting for Wyoming Public Radio and the Mountain West News bureau. Her work has also appeared…

Shondiin Silversmith is an award-winning Native journalist based on the Navajo Nation. Silversmith has covered Indigenous communities for more than 10 years, and covers Arizona’s 22 federally recognized sovereign tribal nations, as well as national and international Indigenous issues.…

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,…

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation / Lakota) serves as a board member for the SPJ Foundation and at-large director for SPJ, where she chairs the SPJ FOI Committee. After 15 years in mainstream press, she…

Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi is Tł’ízíłání, born for To’aheedlíínii, her maternal grandparents are Áshįįhí, and her paternal grandparents are Bit’ahnii. She is Diné from Goat Springs, Arizona within the better known community of Teec Nos Pos. She is a multi-award-winning…

Joseph Lee is a citizen of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) and is based in New York City. He is a former Senior Indigenous Affairs Fellow at Grist and has reported on Indigenous issues in the U.S.…

Rebecca Landsberry-Baker is the executive director of the Native American Journalists Association, which advocates for accurate representations of Indigenous people in media and press freedom throughout Indian Country. She is a former tribal media editor for the Muscogee Nation…

Francine Compton joins NAJA 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…

Muscogee citizen Sterling Cosper (he/him) is membership manager for the Native American Journalists Association, where he is a former a board member, and is former president of the Society of Professional Journalists, Oklahoma Chapter where he is still a…

Sheena Roetman, Lakota, is the education manager for the Native American Journalists Association. Previously, Roetman spent six years as director of membership and programs at the Atlanta Press Club, as well as nearly 10 years as a freelance journalist.…

Justine Medina (she/hers) is Navajo, Winnebago, Menominee and is from Tongva and Acjachemen Territory (Long Beach, CA). Justine is committed and passionate about serving her Native American community. At the age of 15 years old her community service began…