Jaida Grey Eagle

Jaida Grey Eagle is a corps member with Report for America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms. She is from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and grew up in Red Wing, in southern Minnesota. She’s graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe where she studied photography. She has been a fellow with the Native American Journalist Association, First Peoples Fund and NATIVe Fellows program.

According to Jaida, her interest and passion for photography has been raised by the inherent harm the medium has done to underrepresented communities, including her own. Her photography seeks to address and rectify those past wrongs by creating spaces of learning and understanding. Her interest in journalism and storytelling led to co-producing a documentary about six Native American women which premiered at a film festival in Montana where she and her team were given honorable mention for their work.