Native Youth Media Project
Vision Maker Media’s Native Youth Media Project harnesses Native youth’s innate storytelling talent into storytelling skills for short-format media.
Native Youth Media Project
Our Team
We envision a world changed and healed by understanding Native stories and the public conversations they generate.

Francene Blythe-Lewis
President & CEO
Diné, Sisseton-Wahpeton, Eastern Band Cherokee

Gregg Jablonski
Chief Operating & Chief Financial Officer

Julianna Brannum
Chief Program Officer
Comanche

Tony Pérez-Soto
Chief Project Officer
Chorotega/Matambú, Huetar People

Pat O’Meara
Cultural Education Director

Ann McKeighan
Executive Associate

Brittany Grove
Business Manager

Alana Stone
Curatorial Specialist
Sičhą́ǧu Lakȟóta and Diné

Kris Stanley
Project Coordinator

Isaiah Griffith
Student Worker

Marley Hewitt
Student Worker

Gabrielle Elliott, PhD
Volunteer

Kate Beane
Chair
Flandreau Santee Sioux

Laura Hunter
Vice Chair

Paul Hunton
Secretary

Phil Hoffman
Treasurer

Chris Neighbors
Choctaw Nation

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean
Iñupiaq

Nancy Lynn Palmanteer-Holder
Colville

Darius Lee Smith
Diné/African American
Contact Us
Vision Maker Media funds Native American and Alaska Native media at all stages of development. Are you a Vision Maker?
