Board of Directors

Melissa Greene-Blye

Melissa Greene-Blye

Miami Tribe of Oklahoma

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…

Bryan Pollard

Bryan Pollard

Cherokee Nation

Bryan is the senior manager for philanthropic development at The Associated Press where he manages the company’s growing grant portfolio. Bryan is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the former executive editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native…

Eden Fineday

Eden Fineday

Cree (Sweetgrass First Nation)

Eden Fineday is a nêhiyaw iskwêw (Cree woman) from Sweetgrass First Nation in Treaty 6 territory, near North Battleford, Saskatchewan. She is the publisher of IndigiNews and co-founder of tâpwêwin media, an Indigenous media nonprofit rooted in the Cree…

Alyssa London

Alyssa London

Tlingit

She belongs to the Eagle-Killerwhale Clan within Tlingit society, with family roots in the Killerwhale Chasing Seal House of Angoon, Alaska. Her Tlingit name is Yáx̱ Ádi Yádi, meaning Valuable Child, honoring Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) activist Amy Hallingstad.…

Angel Moore

Angel Moore

Peguis First Nation

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,…

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