Grantee Elyse Wild Will Meet With Students at South Dakota State

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Pulitzer Center grantee Elyse Wild will visit South Dakota State University on April 7-9, 2025.

On Monday, April 7, Wild will host open office hours for students interested in journalism careers. This will be an opportunity for students to drop in, ask questions, and engage in conversation about the field.

Wild will also speak with students in the Intercultural Communication, Indigenous Methodologies, Multimedia Reporting, and Advanced Multiplatform Storytelling courses.

On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 7:00pm, Wild will deliver the Annual Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Lecture. In her talk, “Two Medicines: Reporting on How Culture is Healing Native American Communities from the Opioid Crisis,” Wild 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 for Native News Online. Through a solutions-focused lens, she 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 in Washington state.