SMSC graduate Arielle Farve is one of the five students nationwide receiving a $10,000 Facebook Journalism Project Scholarship from the Native American Journalists Association.
A member of the Chickasaw Nation, Farve graduated with a multimedia journalism-production degree in May. She enters SMSC's mass communication master's program in August.
As an undergraduate, Farve served as president of the Native American Student Association in 2017-18. She was a student leader at the Center for Sovereign Nations for three years.
She interned with the Chickasaw Nation Department of Public Affairs and The Noble Research Institute. Her written and videography work has been published in The Chickasaw Times, The Oklahoman and Legacy Magazine.
Farve also is a 2019 NAJA Journalism Fellow who will report on the 2019 National Native Media Conference in Prior Lake, MInn., in September. The student fellows will work in a newsroom with selected mentors representing broadcast, radio, print and online media.