Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic, Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Indian Country Today, and other publications. She lives in Tahlequah, OK, where she also works on language revitalization. She is the writer and host of the podcast This Land.
Indigenous communities deserve the same standard of journalism as the rest of the country, but rarely receive it from non-Native media outlets. Nagle‘s journalism seeks to correct this. From the census, to COVID, to the Supreme Court, Nagle focuses on deep and timely reporting that sheds light on issues of national importance.
Nagle is the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, Women’s Media Center’s Exceptional Journalism Award, a Peabody Nominee, and numerous awards from the Native American Journalist Association.
At MacDowell, Nagle completed fact checking and final edits on her manuscript By The Fire We Carry: the generations long fight for justice on Native land.
