Jenni Monet

Reporter

Jenni Monet journalist and documentary filmmaker currently on a reporting fellowship in Peru sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the International Center for Journalists.

I'm a journalist and documentary filmmaker currently on a reporting fellowship in Peru sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the International Center for Journalists.

I enjoy working on modern pieces about the political and social realities facing Indigenous Peoples, Native Americans and Alaska Natives.

I travel a lot so I write about my journeys as well, mostly about first encounters to strange places, but sometimes about familiar lands, too.

I'm currently working on a PBS-funded film about an Inupiat teenager growing up in one of the most doomed coastal communities in the North Arctic.  Other works in digital, radio and TV have been featured on Al Jazeera, CNN, CBS, PBS, NPR and PRI.

I currently serve on the board of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. I have an MA in International Politics from Columbia Journalism School and I'm an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, an Indian nation in New Mexico. 

Shannon Rivers protested President Donald Trump at a campaign-style rally in Phoenix on Tuesday.

'This is our land': Indigenous rights activists respond to white supremacist rhetoric

At President Donald Trump's campaign-style rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, indigenous and Latino rights advocates stood together to protest racial inequality in Arizona’s justice system. For these groups, facing militarized police is nothing new.

'This is our land': Indigenous rights activists respond to white supremacist rhetoric
Laguna tribal members Jenni Monet and her grandmother June Sarracino.

How do you revive a language if tribal elders don't want you to?

How do you revive a language if tribal elders don't want you to?
Fourteen-year-old Renata Flores at her first concert held in September 2015, in Ayacucho, Peru. The majority of popular cover songs she sang that night were in Quechua.

How a 14-year-old girl is making Quechua cool in Peru — with music and lyrics from Michael Jackson

How a 14-year-old girl is making Quechua cool in Peru — with music and lyrics from Michael Jackson