Alli Joseph

Alli Joseph is a seasoned multi-media journalist, public speaker, documentary filmmaker, branding expert, and family historian. A Native New Yorker, she is a member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and also of Black, West Indian, and white European heritage. Alli carries her late mother’s matrilineal indigenous storytelling traditions for her children and documentary subjects.

About the role

As a contributing editor, senior producer, and on-camera host for Salon.com, Alli has worked for large media companies as correspondent and producer, including NBC, CBS News, VH1, the Food Network, and People Magazine. She has also worked on branded campaigns and early digital advertising at the advertising agencies Grey and Ogilvy.

Alli teaches and programs primary school to post-graduate entrepreneurial journalism courses for journalists of color and is a frequent mentor to younger Black and Native American media and journalism students and mid-career professionals. She is active in advocating for minority journalists’ entrepreneurship and career development.

She has produced or covered stories around presidential primaries, indigenous issues, political conventions, the Sundance Film Festival, the Oscars, journalism and diversity summits, and other national and international events. Alli produced the 2019 PBS documentary Conscience Point (Independent Lens, November 2019) about her Shinnecock tribe's fight to save their land and traditional burial grounds from destruction and development.

Qualifications

• McCormick Tribute Foundation Fellow in Executive Media Management
• Poynter Institute Fellow
• Consulting faculty member of the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
• Former board member of the Radio and Television Digital News Association (RTDNA), representing Native American journalists as ex-officio for the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA)
• Co-directed the Ford Foundation-sponsored start-up media business program "NewU" for five years, writing its curriculum and lecturing on diversity, cultural initiatives, and personal branding
• 2019-20 Gwen Ifill program mentor for the International Women's Media Foundation
• Graduate of Vassar College
• Speaks Spanish
• Member of NAJA

Skills

• Multi-media journalism
• Documentary filmmaking
• Public speaking
• Branding and personal branding
• On-camera hosting and producing
• Storytelling with a focus on indigenous, multicultural, and social justice issues
• Curriculum development and teaching (entrepreneurial journalism, diversity initiatives)
• Mentorship and advocacy for journalists of color