About Jenni Monet

Jenni Monet is an independent director and producer specializing in documentaries and advocacy media projects focused on contemporary indigenous issues.  For more than a decade, Jenni's media career has included such roles as an award-winning television news journalist and anchorwoman for CBS News affiliates; as a senior-level producer for the public television outlet, Brooklyn Information + Culture based in New York; and as the daily host and producer of the Public Radio International syndicate, National Native News. 

Jenni’s story-telling has been awarded by the Associated Press, the National Broadcasters Association, the Telly Awards, and most recently, by the American Indian Film Institute for the short documentary that she directed and produced, MODERN DAY WARRIORS (2008).  Jenni is currently directing and producing the one-hour non-fiction film, LOSING GROUND, supported by the Native American Public Telecommunications organization (NAPT) and the National Geographic All Roads Film Project.  She is a current recipient of the 2009 Firelight Media Producer's Lab, a current fellow of the 2009 Minority Consortia’s New Media Institute and a 2008 fellow of the CPB/PBS Producer’s Academy.  Jenni Is a graduate of Fort Lewis College and holds a BA in English/Communications-Broadcasting.  

Jenni belongs to the Pueblo of Laguna of New Mexico and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.