Jourdan Bennett-Begaye

Jourdan Bennett-Begaye is the editor of ICT and vice president of digital. She is the first woman to be the chief news executive and top editor of the 42-year-old newspaper. She is a Diné citizen of the Navajo Nation.

She received her master's degree in magazine, newspaper and online journalism through the Newhouse Minorities Fellowship at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Her health background is rooted in her bachelor's degree in athletic training from Fort Lewis College and the University of Michigan Future Public Health Leaders Program via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Jourdan has talked about coverage of Indigenous peoples, nations and issues with the Associated Press, NPR, PBS Newshour and more.