Gabriel Pietrorazio, KJZZ
Tribal Natural Resources ReporterGabriel Pietrorazio is a correspondent who reports on tribal natural resources for KJZZ, the public radio station in Phoenix. His content is published by KNAU as part of the Arizona Public Media Exchange.
He began covering Haudenosaunee communities throughout New York and Canada while attending Hobart College in the Finger Lakes.
After earning bachelor’s degrees in media and society and political science in 2020, Pietrorazio graduated the following year with a master’s degree from Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Since then, he has prioritized uplifting Indigenous voices by bringing greater visibility and attention to their stories as a multimedia journalist. He frequently contributes to Civil Eats, a national newsroom focused on food systems, and the Syracuse-based Central Current, among other digital nonprofit platforms.
His in-depth Indigenous affairs reporting, primarily centered around agricultural issues, has received numerous local and national recognitions, including awards from the North American Agricultural Journalists, Native American Journalists Association and Syracuse Press Club.
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President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team named outgoing North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the agency that manages the nation’s natural and cultural resources. -
President Joe Biden formally apologized for the U.S. government’s role in running federal Indian boarding schools last month. About four dozen operated in Arizona and one is reflecting on the apology. -
Native candidates up and down the ballot made historic gains in Arizona and beyond in the election. -
An Apache-led nonprofit that has nearly exhausted its legal options to protect a sacred Arizona site from copper mining is traveling across the country on a prayer journey. They're headed to D.C. to file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. -
A new film offers a fictional portrayal of westward expansion in the 19th century. It features real people and places, including Arizona’s White Mountain Apache Tribe. An Arizona language instructor taught actors how to speak Apache for the film. -
The White Mesa Mill in Utah is where uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine in Arizona will soon be trucked through the Navajo Nation. But that same facility has received waste from a much farther location, frustrating another tribe. -
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act sunsets on June 10. The Navajo Nation Council is voting on a resolution Monday that would be hand-delivered to U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson.
