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November 25, 2024
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Adoptive parents of Cherokee toddler appear on Dr. Phil

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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A South Carolina couple whose adoption case caught the nation’s attention when they had to hand over their adoptive daughter to her biological father will be featured on the Dr. Phil show Thursday, according to a press release issued by a spokesperson for the couple.

Matt and Melanie Capobianco, the adoptive parents of 3-year-old Veronica, sat down with television talk-show host, Dr. Phil McGraw for an exclusive taping about their situation and how a federal law known as the Indian Child Welfare Act allowed the little girl’s absentee father, Dusten Brown, a member of the Cherokee Nation and a resident of the Bartlesville area, to remove her from their home last New Year’s Eve.


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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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