Loris Ann Taylor

Loris Ann Taylor is executive director of Native Public Media, an organization representing the media interests of Native America through radio, journalism, new technologies and platforms, and public policy. She is a 2006 recipient of the Louis T. Delgado Distinguished Grantmaker Award from Native Americans in Philanthropy, and in 2005 she was honored with the Leadership for a Changing World Award from the Ford Foundation. Taylor, formerly the general manager of KUYI-FM, co-founded the UNITY Journalist of Color award-winning "Indian Country News Bureau," and produced the children's program Shooting Stars and weekly talk show House Calls, which received the Indian Health Service Award. She also instituted the first radio class/curriculum at the Hopi Junior Senior High School. Since 1993, Taylor has served as associate director of the Hopi Foundation, the largest 501(c)(3) organization on the Hopi Reservation, and worked to advance the foundation's mission to continually improve the living conditions of families on the reservation. Taylor also represented 19 of Arizona's 22 tribes as executive director of the Arizona Indian Gaming Association; and served as special assistant for the Hopi Tribe's Office of General Counsel in the areas of land, water and energy matters.