Jaida Grey Eagle is an Oglala Lakota freelance documentary photographer currently located in St. Paul, MN. She is a member of the Women’s Photograph, Indigenous Photograph, and 400 Years Project.
Jaida served as a Report for America Fellow with the Sahan Journal as a photojournalist and won several awards during her time as a fellow including MN Society of Professional Journalist Best News Photography in 2022 and 2023. Jaida is a co-producer on the Sisters Rising Documentary, which is the story of six Native American women reclaiming personal and tribal sovereignty in the face of ongoing sexual violence against Indigenous women in the United States and has recently received an Honorable Mention at the Big Sky Doc Festival. In 2019 Jaida joined the Minneapolis Institute of Arts as a Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) Native American Fellow and co-curated the native photography show titled “In Our Hands”.
She holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts emphasizing Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
She is available for assignment.
She has recently contributed to the Smithsonian Magazine, New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, ProPublica, The Urban Institute, The Wall Street Journal and Netflix.
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