Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
Founder-Director
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.
Location
Twin Buttes, North Dakota
Languages Spoken
English, Lakota, Mandan
Areas of Expertise
Federal trust relationship with American Indians, freedom of information, and during several decades has reported on Indigenous issues ranging from spirituality and environment to education and land rights.
Other articles by Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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