Native Lens Team

Ziyi Xu

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Colleen Thurston

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Ziyi Xu is a multimedia journalist for Rocky Mountain PBS, covering Southwest Colorado and the Four Corners Region. She is based in Durango and focuses on stories about Indigenous and ...

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Josiah Jones

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Ellen Boeke

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Josiah W. Jones is Apache, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Ohkay Owingeh and Kiowa, born and raised in Shawnee, OK. He graduated from Southeastern Oklahoma State University with a business degree in May ...

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Alex Forsett

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Ellen Boeke

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Alex Forsett is 3rd-generation Coloradan, Advisory Board Member of the CMU Tech Digital Filmmaking Program and Exofficio board member of KAFM Community Radio where he hosts a weekly electronic music ...

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Tami Graham

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Ellen Boeke

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In her role at KSUT, Tami successfully raised over $2.5 million, resulting in the radio station moving into a new 5,000 square foot multimedia facility.   Prior to that role, ...

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Carol Fleischer

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Ellen Boeke

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Carol has spent the last forty-five years making documentaries for television. Her films have garnered Emmy Awards, Humanitas Prizes, The Writers Guild of America Award, and many more. She has ...

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Crystal Ashike

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Ellen Boeke

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Crystal is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and graduated from Fort Lewis College. She was a reporter for Global Press Journal and Navajo Times. She aims to create ...

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