Policy Analysis

Dr. Traci Morris presenting research findings at the National Congress of American Indian’s Tribal Leader Scholar Forum in 2010.

We are telecommunications and communications policy specialists and have worked nationally with:

• The Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• The FCC Office of Native Affairs and Policy (ONAP)
• The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
• Tribal Nations: Gila River Indian Community,  the Chickasaw Nation
• Tribal Organizations: Native Public Media, Phoenix Indian Center, NABI Foundation, Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums, Institute of American Indian Arts 
• Tribal radio stations
• Social justice groups: Free Press, Center for Media Justice, Media Literacy Project,  and the Media and Democracy Coalition
• Think tanks: Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation

Our writing is published and has been presented nationally. The New Media, Technology and Internet Use in Indian Country study (written on behalf of Native Public Media) has been presented at the following forums and this work is cited in the FCC’s National Broadband Plan:

• Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums 2013
• Montana Tribal Chairman’s Broadband Summit 2012
• Tribal Telecom 2012
• Association of Tribal Archives, Museums, and Libraries 2011
• National Rural Assembly 2011
• NCAI Tribal Leader-Scholar Forum at the mid-year convention 2010
• Native American and Indigenous Studies Association’s Annual Meeting 2010
• American Indian Studies Association’s Annual Meeting 2010
• New America Foundation 2009