This year’s featured speaker will be Mark Trahant, a Native American journalist and faculty member at North Dakota University who will speak on “Environmental Justice.”

Trahant is a member of Idaho’s Shoshone-Bannock Tribe, and a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. He has served as editor of the editorial page for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,. and is a former columnist at The Seattle Times and has been publisher of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News in Moscow, Idaho; executive news editor of The Salt Lake Tribune; a reporter at the Arizona Republic in Phoenix; and has worked at several tribal newspapers. Trahant reports and comments on events and trends on his blog at TrahantReports.Com and on and other social media. He does a weekly audio commentary for Native Voice One.

In addition to Trahant’s address the January 21^st Breakfast will include presentation of the Rosa Parks Human Rights Achievement Awards and presentation of winners of the Martin Luther King Jr. Art and Essay Contest.

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