Sydney Beane (Flandreau Santee Sioux)
Will Gray, Jr., (Assiniboine/Gros Ventre)
Sue Matters - Station Manager, KWSO- FM
Jaclyn Sallee and Geoffrey Blackwell
Sial Thonolig -KOHN-FM 91.9
Laura Wittstock and Loris Taylor
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Native Public Media Sydney Beane (Flandreau Santee Sioux) Syd Beane enjoys working with both tribal and urban Indian organizations to plan and implement community development projects in the areas of housing/mixed use building development and economic development. He has been a business partner in a Native American 8-A corporation and Chairman of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribal Economic Development Holding Company. Currently, he is a business partner in a multi-media business focusing on digital signage. Syd has an extensive media background including 8 years as co-host of the television show “21st Century Native Americans” in Phoenix; 5 years as the national coordinator for the Native Media & Technology Network which co-sponsored the American Indian Summer Institute Immersion in Film/TV with Fox Entertainment Group in LA; and is the creator/co-producer of “Native Nations: Standing Together for Civil Rights,” a documentary film distributed by ABC and the Hallmark Channel. Syd serves as Board President of Migizi Communications in Minneapolis and Board Treasurer of Native American Public Telecommunications in Lincoln, Nebraska. Geoffrey Blackwell (Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Omaha) Will Gray, Jr., (Assiniboine/Gros Ventre) Station Manager, KGVA-FM, Fort Belknap College, Harlem, MT Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Will Gray Jr. has been involved in public radio for 5 years all of which have been at KGVA, the only full-powered Native radio station in the state of Montana. He started out as a volunteer which eventually led to the station manager position. Gray was a recipient of the Packard Foundation Tribal Scholar Award in 1996. He has served on local community boards such as the Fort Belknap Tribal Disaster and Emergency Committee, Volunteer Fire Department Board and the Fort Belknap College Construction Board. Sue Matters Station Manager, KWSO- FM, Warm Springs, OR Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Sue Matters has lived on the Warm Springs Reservation in Oregon for the past 23 years and worked in radio for 11 of those years. Her radio experience includes stints at a college campus station, in commercial broadcasting, and 5 years as station manager at KWSO 91.9 FM, winner of the Oregon Association of Broadcasters Station of the Year for several seasons. KWSO is a “Hot Adult Contemporary” station with “Talking Drum” hours along with 12 local newscasts each day. Sue has led the station through significant growth installing new studio equipment, transmitter and antenna as well as an automation system. The station receives funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Community Service Grant Program and is an affiliate of NV1, NPR & PRI. Jaclyn Sallee (Inupiat Eskimo) President and CEO, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, Anchorage, AK Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Jaclyn Sallee has been with Koahnic Broadcast Corporation since its inception in July 1995 and has served as its President and CEO since December 1997. Under Sallee's direction, Koahnic reached an enviable national leadership position in the broadcast industry by designing and developing the award-winning programs National Native News, Stories of Our People, The Native Word of the Day, Earthsongs, and Native America Calling. She also helped found the Indigenous Broadcast Center --- now the KBC Training Center --- to provide educational opportunities for Native people seeking media careers. Ms. Sallee serves on several community and industry boards and committees in addition to Native Public Media: CIRI Foundation, Alaska Broadcasters Association Equal Opportunity Committee, University of Alaska-Fairbanks Department of Journalism/Broadcasting Advisory Board, Native Communications Group and the Steering Committee for the Alaska Native Communications Society. Sial Thonolig (Tohono O’odham) General Manager, KOHN-FM 91.9, Sells, AZ Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Sial Thonolig is the current General Manager of KOHN FM, a Native station licensed to the Tohono O’odham Nation. “Morning Light” in his native O’odham, ST as he prefers, has enjoyed 28 years working with the Tohono O’odham Nation in diverse areas such as the Utility Authority, Employment Rights Commission, and the inaugural Boxing Commission. These opportunities have enabled ST to gain experience in addressing critical issues before congressional committees, governmental agencies and other regulatory bodies. Concentrating on education, commerce, human resources, communications and economic issues, ST has developed a unique perspective on the impact of these issues on Indian Country. As a strong advocate for native sovereignty, ST has consistently promoted organizational development by the Tohono O’odham Nation to exceed established standards. Laura Waterman Wittstock, Chair (Seneca) |