Anna V. Smith writes and edits from Boulder, Colorado, as an associate editor for the High Country News Indigenous affairs desk. In 2022 she completed the Ted Scripps Fellowship at the Center for Environmental Journalism at CU Boulder. Her work has appeared in outlets such as the New York Times, Audubon, Undark, Slate and Mother Jones. Anna speaks regularly on radio programs and at journalism conferences and university classes. She is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and Native American Journalists Association.