Welcoming to the IMFA team
Castle Fox- Administrative Assistant
Castle Fox serves as the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance administrative assistant. She was raised in Twin Buttes, N.D., located on the Fort Berthold Reservation. She belongs to the Knife Clan and is an enrolled citizen of the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation. For the last six years she’s worked as a customer service representative for a number of local businesses in the Bismarck-Mandan area.
Castle is looking forward to working with the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance and Buffalo’s Fire, the online news publication of IMFA, to be part of an uprising of independent Indigenous media for Indian Country.
In spring 2024, she plans to remain with IMFA while furthering her education in business administration at the United Tribes Technical College She’s devoted to her local community and hopes to help improve it for the future generations. She’s a lifelong resident of North Dakota. Since relocating from the Fort Berthold Reservation, she now lives in Bismarck, N.D. with her five family members. She’s caring and quick to help friends and relatives.
Adrianna Adame- Indigenous Democracy News Beat/Report for America Corps Member
Adrianna Adame is enrolled Chippewa Cree, Rocky Boy’s Reservation in Montana — is a Report for America corps member covering Indigenous Democracy across the state of North Dakota for Buffalo’s
Fire. While in Bismarck, she will be reporting on voting rights, tribal council, school board and rural co-op meetings, tribal college stories and K-12 education. Prior to joining Buffalo’s Fire, Adame graduated with her Masters in Journalism from Syracuse University’s S.I. School of Public Communication, where she was a Newhouse Minority Fellow and intern at Syracuse.com.
In Syracuse, she reported on stories from underrepresented communities in Central New York, as well as arts and entertainment. Adame has also contributed and written for local and editorial sites such as
POPSUGAR, the Stand, NPR Next Gen and Flique Editorial. Throughout her
undergrad years, she also held the positions of Managing and News Editor for The Cougar Chronicle, California State San Marcos’ student newspaper, where she lead, edited, reported and most importantly, first became passionate about journalism. Since her days at The Cougar Chronicle, she’s has been determined to work in local journalism, primarily focusing on diverse communities. Adame is Mexican American and a proud member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy, Montana.