NAJA Membership Luncheon and Business Meeting 2023 

Leaders and members of the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) held the annual business meeting in Winnipeg.
Attendees reviewed NAJA’s accomplishments and heard remarks from the 2022 and 2023 NAJA-Medill Milestone Achievement Awardees Cheryl McKenzie and Duncan McCue respectively. NAJA announced election results for the board of directors and the name change live at the conclusion of the meeting.
Welcome: Chief Gordon BlueSky (Brokenhead Ojibway Nation), Chairperson, Treaty One Nations Inc.; Presenters: NAJA Staff; Charles Whitaker, Dean and Professor, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism; Patty Loew, Ph.D. (Mashkiiziibii-Bad River Ojibwe), Professor, Medill School of Journalism and Inaugural Director of the Native American & Indigenous Research Center at Northwestern University; 2022 NAJA-Medill Milestone Achievement Award Winner Cheryl McKenzie (Anishinaabe / Cree and Peguis First Nation), APTN and 2023 NAJA-Medill Milestone Achievement Award Winner Duncan McCue (Chippewas of Georgina Island First Nation), Author and Professor, Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication; Graham Lee Brewer (Cherokee), NAJA President; Christine Trudeau (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation), NAJA Vice President and Elections Chair