Mark Trahant

Mark Trahant is the 20th Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He is also a writer, video producer and Twitter poet. Trahant was recently a Kaiser Media Fellow and is the former editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Mark is a member of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribe and a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. He is the author of The Last Great Battle of the Indian Wars, about Henry Jackson, Forrest Gerard and the campaign for American Indian self-determination.