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Grantee Elyse Wild Will Visit LaGuardia Community College
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May 28, 2025 | 12:00 PMADDRESS:
LaGuardia Community College
31-10 Thomson Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101
Tribal nations lean on cultural practices and traditional values to fight addiction.
Pulitzer Center grantee Elyse Wild will visit LaGuardia Community College on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, to give a public talk and speak in various classrooms about her reporting and journalism career.
At 12:00pm, Wild will deliver a campus-wide talk, “Two Medicines: Reporting on How Culture is Healing Native American Communities from the Opioid Crisis.” She will discuss her Pulitzer Center-supported reporting project, Addiction Care in Native American Communities, which uncovers how combining Indigenous cultural practices and Western science increases the effectiveness of treatment for opioid substance use disorder in Native American communities.
Wild is a senior editor at Native News Online. Through a solutions-focused lens, her work covers the overdose epidemic in Native American communities and missing and murdered Indigenous people.
Her work has been published in The Guardian, Tribal Business News, McClatchy, and NPR.
