Allison Herrera
Indigenous Affairs reporterAllison Herrera is a radio and print journalist who's worked for PRX's The World, Colorado Public Radio as the climate and environment editor and as a freelance reporter for High Country News’ Indigenous Affairs desk.
While at The World, she covered gender and equity for a reporting project called “Across Women’s Lives,” which focused on women’s rights around the globe. This project took her to Ukraine, where Herrera showcased the country’s global surrogacy industry, and reported on families who were desperate to escape the ongoing civil war that they moved to abandoned towns near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site. In 2019, she received a fellowship from the International Women in Media Fund to report on the issue of reproductive rights in Argentina, a country scarred by the effects of the Dirty War and a legacy of sexual and physical abuse directed towards women.
In 2015 and 2016, Herrera co-created and produced the Localore project “Invisible Nations” with KOSU. The project included video, radio and live events centered on telling better stories about Native American life in Oklahoma. Invisible Nations received several awards from the Associated Press and the Society of Professional Journalists.
In 2017, she and her colleague Ziva Branstetter received an Emmy Award nomination for their Reveal story “Does the Time Fit the Crime,” which centered on criminal justice in Oklahoma.
in 2019, Herrera’s story for High Country News and Center for Public Integrity titled When Disaster Strikes, Indigenous Communities Receive Unequal Disaster Aid received a Scripps Howard nomination for best environmental reporting along with the One Disaster Away series.
Herrera’s Native ties are from her Xolon Salinan tribal heritage; her family’s traditional village was in the Toro Creek area of the Central California coast.
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Lawmakers fired back at the governor over statements he made, both with legislative action and words of their own. -
Muscogee preacher Jimmy Anderson has served Many Springs Baptist Church in Holdenville, Okla. for decades. Watch our short documentary on him, as he is set to retire.
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Residents of the city's north side were concerned that Cherokee Nation wanted to build a jail on the proposed site for a satellite courthouse.
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Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed a law to reform the tribe’s election code.
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The new dictionary includes thousands of words and is accessible to citizens across the globe.
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Reporting by Bloomberg Law revealed that the Oklahoma attorney general's office paid a Washington, D.C. law firm $1.4 million — that's double their original agreement.
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For the first time in the nation's long history, boarding schools and their harmful effects have been known to Indigenous communities. Now, a new report released as part of an initiative to acknowledge the harmful effects schools had shows how, in detail and purposeful, these policies were.
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KOSU hosted a Twitter Spaces on May 9 to talk about Reproductive Care in Oklahoma in light of the new laws signed by Gov. Kevin Stitt. Indigenous Affairs reporter Allison Herrera spoke with StateImpact Oklahoma's Catherine Sweeney and University of Tulsa Professor Aila Hoss to talk about what the new laws are, when they take effect and how the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision could possibly affect them.
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Reproductive rights and abortion are very much in the news right now and have been for the last year. KOSU will be hosting a Twitter Spaces event on Monday, May 9 at 12 p.m. CST to discuss the new abortion laws recently passed and signed into law in Oklahoma.
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After several filings to the Oklahoma Tax Commission by citizens from several tribal nations, Muscogee Nation is taking a big step to make sure its citizens have protection when they file tax relief cases.
