Stacey Thunder

Stacey Thunder is a producer, television host, actress, and attorney serving Indian Country for over 20 years. She began her television career in 2004 as the host and co-producer of the on-going PBS weekly news magazine series, "Native Report", of which she has hosted 154 episodes in eleven years. Thunder now hosts and produces "Indigenous with Stacey Thunder", an entertainment and educational video series that shares contemporary stories to shatter stereotypes and misconceptions, promote positivity, and simply show the world who Indigenous peoples really are. As an actress, Thunder has appeared in several films and television shows, including a lead role in the independent feature-length film, "The Jingle Dress", of which she received a Best Actress nomination from the American Indian Film Festival, "Crash" starring Dennis Hopper, "Tallulah" starring Ellen Page and Allison Janney, "The Promised Land" by Poltergeist screenwriter Michael Grais, "Nina in the Woods", "Kid West", and "Cold Feet". Thunder, who is Red Lake and Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe, is a mother to four wonderful children. She is also a board member of the Nike N7 Fund that provides grant money to Native communities supporting sports and physical activity programs for the youth.