Shirley Sneve

Shirley Sneve is an enrolled member of the Ponca Tribe in Nebraska. She works for IndiJ Public Media and the ICT Newscast. Formerly Indian Country Today, the nonprofit news organization started in South Dakota as the Lakota Times. Previously, she directed Vision Maker Media, the largest funder of Indigenous media for PBS stations, located in Lincoln, Nebraska. Prior to that Shirley led the Arts Extension Service from 2001-2004. She was a founder of the Northern Plains Tribal Arts Juried Show and Market, the Oyate Trail cultural tourism byway, and the Alliance of Tribal Tourism Advocates. She has been the director of the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science Visual Arts Center in Sioux Falls, assistant director of the South Dakota Arts Council, and minority affairs producer for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Shirley has been adjunct professor in Native American Studies at Augustana College and the University of Sioux Falls and a community cultural planning consultant.