Jenni Monet is a journalist and media critic focused on Indigenous affairs and the environment. She also authors the newsletter, Indigenously. Her work has spanned across mediums for such outlets as CBS News, Public Radio International, PBS NewsHour, and the Los Angeles Times. She has written about Alaska Native mushers in the  Iditarod sled dog race, produced a short film about the Native American Rights Fund, and filed a radio story about her grandmother being bullied for the way she struggled to speak her Pueblo language, Keres.  In 2017, Jenni was named Journalist of the Year by the Newswomen's Club of New York for her embedded coverage of the anti-pipeline demonstrations at Standing Rock. In 2020, she won a Mirror Award for calling attention to "The Crisis in Covering Indian Country."  She is Kawaika, a tribal citizen of Laguna Pueblo (Big Turkey clan), a Native nation in present-day New Mexico.