President
Indigenous Journalists Association
Christine Trudeau is the President of the Indigenous Journalists Association, formerly named the Native American Journalists Association. She is a citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. Trudeau is a skilled writer, editor, mentor, teacher, storyteller, and print and audio news reporter.
Recently, Trudeau was a visiting adjunct faculty member for the University of Montana School of Journalism, teaching classes in diversity in the media, beat reporting, and general news reporting, and co-taught the native news honors project.
In 2022, Trudeau received the Richard LaCourse Award for Investigative Journalism with Jourdan Bennett-Begaye and Sunnie Clahchischiligi for their story ‘A broken system: the number of Indigenous people who died from coronavirus may never be known’ with the Indigenous Investigative Collective.
Covering Tribal Government and Federal Government Elections Across the U.S.
Friday, August 25, 2023
11:30am – 12:30pm EDT