Bryan Pollard
Bryan Pollard is a project manager for the Associated Press and an independent journalist and consultant. He began his career as a freelance photojournalist in Portland, Ore. He is a former John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University and associate director of the Native American Journalists Association. He has extensively researched and developed policy solutions to advance the cause of an Indigenous free press in Indian Country. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, he previously served as the executive editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native American newspaper in North America originally published in 1828. He is also the founding managing editor of Street Roots, a nonprofit social justice-centered newspaper in Portland. He has served on both the staff and board of High Country News, where he was instrumental in the establishment of the Indigenous Affairs desk. He is still an avid photographer, shooting in film and digital formats.
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