BOARD MEMBER
Mark Trahant is editor of Indian Country Today, a daily digital news platform that covers the Indigenous world, including American Indians, Alaska Natives and Fist Nations. He was a recent Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Trahant is former editor of the the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He also worked at The Seattle Times, Arizona Republic, The Salt Lake City Tribune, Moscow- Pullman Daily News, the Navajo Times, Navajo Nation Today and the Sho-Ban News. He is a member of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and is former president of the Native American Journalists Association. He was recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.