Melissa Greene-Blye, Ph.D. worked as an anchor and reporter during 20 years in the news business, covering local news in television markets big and small. She enjoys using her knowledge and experience to educate the newest generation of journalists. Melissa is a citizen of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Her research examines journalistic representations and negotiations of American Indian identity past and present.

Melissa is the director of the Center for Indigenous Student Media, creator and director of the KU Native Storytelling Workshop, faculty supervisor for Good Morning Indian Country, an award-winning student-led weekly Native news and information television program. She is a board member and education chair for the Indigenous Journalists Association, and also serves on the board of IndiJ Public Media, the parent non-profit of ICT News. She is an assistant professor in the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Kansas, where she is also affiliate faculty in the Indigenous Studies Program.

Greene-Blye briefed National Press Foundation fellows in May 2026: Why Indigenous Identity Matters.