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November 22, 2024
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A note to readers: Out of office, for now

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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Jodi Rave at University of Montana Law School
Jodi Rave at University of Montana Law School

 

Dear Readers:
I’ve been out of my office for several weeks, therefore, the postings have been minimal. I’m tending to matters that will keep me away from my computer for at least another week. If by chance I can post, I will do so but I’m in a lot of areas that do not have cell phone service. Or, it is spotty at best. Meanwhile, I hope everyone is enjoying late spring and the turn of summer. I was able to get online today for the first time today. I’m now sitting in the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation tribal headquarters at a council meeting here in New Town, N.D. The meeting just started, so, this is all for now folks. Thanks.

Jodi Rave

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
jodi@imfreedomalliance.org https://twitter.com/JodiRave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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