The Growing Role of Native Americans in Public Relations
November 11, 2021, 6 pm ET
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Native Americans public relations professionals—spread across some 570 tribes across the US—have had to overcome communications challenges few of us have had to face. Many serve as social activists campaigning against environmental infringements and advocating for better healthcare on the reservation. Others serve to rectify long-standing misperceptions about Native Americans, working to eliminate demeaning portrayals in our popular culture in movies, sports, commercials, and textbooks. And many serve to represent tribal interests before big business and government, while preserving their unique tribal identities and passing the culture along to the next generations.
Meet the public relations leaders of tribes from across the country, as they share inspiring stories about the role of communications in promoting economic opportunity and preserving well-being throughout all of the tribes.
Emcee
Catherine Hernandez Blades, senior vice president, Marketing and Communications, SAIC
Keynote
Mark Trahant, editor, Indian Country Today, Phoenix, Arizona
Panelists
Angela-Łot’oydaatlno-Gonzalez, author, Button Up! Fall in Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska
Candace Hamana, principal, Badger PR, Phoenix, Arizona
Simon Moya-Smith, adjunct professor of Indigenous Studies, University of Colorado Denver; freelance writer for NBC News, CNN, Lonely Planet, and Fodor's Travel; citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation
Jaynie Parrish, executive director Navajo County Democrats, Arizona
Catherine Pennington, Community Indigenous Engagement (BC, NWT, AB), Enbridge
Collin Price, principal, B-Team Strategies, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; member of the Ho-Chunk Nation
Brandon Scott, director of communications for Cherokee Nation Businesses, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Randy'L Teton, public affairs manager, Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall, Idaho
Wrap up
Kathy Baird, senior director of Global Communications, Nike, Sicangu Lakota and Oneida
Thanks to our Sponsors
“The Growing Role of Native Americans in Public Relations” was sponsored in part by: Enbridge, The Bonnie Yablon Foundation, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication Department of Advertising and Public Relations at University of Georgia, Badger PR, PR Council, Page, Diversity Action Alliance, The Stevens Group, The Hannon Group, Public Relations & Communications Association (PRCA), Toni Muzi-Falconi, Joyful Planet, CommPRO, California State University, Fullerton, Steve Lilienthal, and Muck Rack.
