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 numerous awards, including the $20,000 Doris O’Donnell Innovations in Investigative Journalism Fellowship from the Center for Media Innovations at Point Park University in 2021. In 2022, she was inducted into the inaugural class of the North American Indigenous Athletics Hall of Fame for sports writing and was a 2022-2023 Russell J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellow. Clahchischiligi served as lead author for the award-winning article entitled “This is a Viral Story about Viral Stories: Images and Graphical Power in COVID Communications in the Navajo Nation,” published in Global Rhetorics of Science, SUNY Press, 2023. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing and teaches at Arizona State University. She is from T’iis NásBąs, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation.