Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, and a two-spirit (queer) woman. She is the author of By The Fire We Carry: The Generation-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land and the writer and host of the podcast This Land. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, The Guardian, USA Today, Indian Country Today, and more. In the first season of This Land, she told the story of one Supreme Court case about tribal land in Oklahoma, the small-town murder that started it, and the surprising connection to her own family history. That story is the subject of her first book. Season two was a timely exposé about how special interests are using custody battles over Native children to attack tribal sovereignty in a case that made it all the way to the Supreme Court. 

Nagle believes Indigenous communities deserve the same standard of journalism as the rest of the country, but rarely receive it from non-Native media outlets. Her journalism seeks to correct this. From the census to COVID to the Supreme Court, Nagle focuses on deeply reported and timely stories that impact her community. Nagle lives in Tahlequah, OK.

Rebecca Nagle is the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, the largest cash prize for journalism in the United States. She has also received the Exceptional Journalism Award from the Women’s Media Center, a Peabody nomination, a National Magazine Awards finalist, two Webby Awards for best documentary podcast, the Medal of Distinction from Barnard College, and numerous awards from the Native American Journalist Association. In 2016, Nagle was named one of the National Center American Indian Enterprise Development’s Native American 40 Under 40 for her work to support survivors and advocate for policy change to address the crisis of violence against Native women. Nagle has also been recognized as Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People (2012) and in 2015 was on YBCA’s 100 List.