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Jaclyn Sallee, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation President and CEO and member of the Foraker Operations Board, was honored with an award for Media Excellence at the Eighth Annual Native Media Summit on July 13 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The award was given by Native Public Media, an organization with the mission to promote healthy, engaged, and independent Native Communities through media access, control and ownership.
Loris Taylor, President and CEO of Native Public Media, said that “Sallee has blazed the way for satellite distribution of Native programming in an environment where Native media continues to struggle in its efforts to reach Native audiences that remain largely unserved and underserved.”
Sallee has developed many award-winning programs including Earthsongs, “Native Word of the Day,” “Stories of our People,” National Native News, and KNBA news programs. She is instrumental in breaking new ground in developing Koahnic’s first international broadcast in multiple languages. Sallee works in sustaining Alaska’s Native languages through creative radio programming and is a recipient of YWCA’s Women of Achievement and Anchorage Chamber of Commerce’s “Top 40 Under 40” Award.