Rhonda LeValdo

Rhonda LeValdo, host of “Native Spirit Radio” on KKFI 90.1 FM, was elected to serve as president of the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) recently. Ms. LeValdo considered how “as a NAJA member who started off as a student, I know the importance of our organization in keeping the fires lit within our young people. Native journalists in NAJA lit this fire within myself.  It is this fire that I will continue to pass on to the next generation of storytellers and ask that all Native journalists commit themselves to keep NAJA strong.”

Originally from New Mexico, she earned an associate’s degree in media arts at Haskell and a bachelor’s degree in journalism at KU in fall 2007. “I am Acoma Pueblo from Acoma, New Mexico. It is billed as the ‘Oldest Continuously Inhabited City’ in the United States. It is a beautiful place that still has no running water or electricity on our village. I recently made my grandmother famous for a video I made for the YouTube/Pulitzer contest ‘Project:Report’ in 2009.”

She has produced and hosted Native Spirit Radio on KKFI since 2003, which airs every Sunday at 5:00 pm Central Time on KKFI 90.1 FM. The show features a Native news segment and plays traditional and contemporary Native American musicians such as Blacklodge, Youngbird, Keith Secola, and Savage Family. LeValdo has interviewed notable Native Americans on the showing, including Mark Trahant, Vine Deloria, Suzanne Harjo, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Edward Valandra, and James Riding In.

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