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Minnesota Indian Business Alliance seeks an Engagement Coordinator

MNIBA is a statewide, all-volunteer organizational collaborative MNIBA is a statewide, all-volunteer organizational collaborative

The Minnesota Indian Business Alliance (MNIBA) seeks an Engagement Coordinator. MNIBA’s work straddles the nonprofit and native-owned business worlds, giving us a unique opportunity to break with convention and introduce new ideas.

This position allows you to work from home and will touch nearly every aspect of our operation including: public engagement, marketing and communications, event coordination, program development and more. You will gain a broad range of experience with MNIBA, the tribal communities and citizens we serve while directly impacting our mission to ACT:  Align partners, Connect businesses to resources and Transform native economies.

Application submission deadline is February 16, 2018.

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

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.