She has completed a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. Karyn may be best known for her work as a Parliament Hill reporter and as the Executive Director of News and Current Affairs at APTN (Aboriginal Peoples Television Network), where she ran the news department for seven years. Leya is currently producing her second feature length documentary about missing and murdered Indigenous women, titled “Bring Her Home.” In the second segment, Karyn Pugliese aka Pabàmàdiz, is an assistant professor of journalism at Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Recently, Leya was selected as the 2020 Sundance Institute Merata Mita Fellowship for Indigenous Artists and attended the 2020 Berlinale European Film Market as a Native Fellow. She is best known for her first feature documentary, “The People’s Protectors,” a Vision Maker Media grant production and winner of the 2019 Upper Midwest Emmy Award for Best Cultural Documentary. Leya works as a Producer for Twin Cities PBS.

She makes her home in Saint Paul, Minnesota with her companion and three children. In the first segment, Leya Hale is from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota and Diné Nations.

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