Daniela Aki

Daniela Aki (Hunkpapa Lakota and Mexican American) is the Bismarck Documenters Site Manager for Buffalo’s Fire. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business administration from United Tribes Technical College (UTTC) in Bismarck, ND, in 2023. She is currently working toward her MBA at Sitting Bull College, supporting the North Dakota Tribal College System (NDTCS), which poured a staggering $169.5 million into the North Dakota economy from 2022-2023.

Community support is her main passion, and she is excited to activate new, and current, Documenters in the area to civic engagement and their right to freedom of information. Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance provides the perfect platform for community outreach and Daniela knows her community will rise to the challenge of commitment to information-sharing among, and through, Indigenous communities, which often lack consistent access to dependable sources of information. Through Documenters, she envisions honest and reliable information to connect Indigenous populations, wherever they reside in North Dakota.