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 is now the founder and executive director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, which operates Buffalo’s Fire, an independent digital news site. In 2003, Spotted Bear received the Nieman Fellowship for journalists at Harvard University and was selected in 2021 as a Bush Fellow. She was awarded the 2020-2021 MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowship and the John S. Knight Community Impact Fellow at Stanford University in 2021. Her writing is featured in “The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity,” published by Columbia University Press.