Joseph Lee
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.…
Sunnie Clahchischiligi
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…
Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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…
Angel Moore
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,…
Shondiin Silversmith
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.…
Savannah Maher
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…
Jourdan Bennett-Begaye
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…
Angel Ellis
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…
Christine Trudeau
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…