Meet Melissa Olson
Melissa Olson is a reporter for MPR’s Native News Project.
She is a recent contributor to the North Star Journey Series — stories about the resilience of Indigenous, Black, and people of color throughout Minnesota.
Melissa is a recent graduate of the arts and public policy program at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. She lives in Minneapolis.
Tweet her @mizzilina.
Recent Contributions
- Personal histories, items can be claimed by adult adoptees from Minnesota’s DHS files
- Leech Lake band celebrates the transfer of 11,000 acres that represent what was illegally taken
- SouthWest Transit will become the first in the metro to offer rides in autonomous vehicles
- Budding intertribal trade takes root in Minnesota with legalization of cannabis
- County Bridge over the Blue Earth River still too dangerous to assess
- St. Paul road closures continue even as river levels recede
- Vikings player Khyree Jackson, 24, killed in Maryland crash
- With Minnesota law change in effect, adoptees can access original birth records
- Prairie Island opens cannabis dispensary, the state’s first near the metro
- U.S. Forest Service moves forward with Leech Lake land transfer agreement