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 generation of journalists. Melissa is the director of the Center for Indigenous Student Media and is a professor in the University of Kansas School of Journalism and Mass Communications, where she created and directs the KU Native Storytelling Workshop and is the faculty supervisor for Good Morning Indian Country, a student-led, livestreamed weekly Native news and information program.