Sarah Liese

Sarah Liese (Twilla) is Diné and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. Her grandmother, Mary Morez, named her Twilla, which means “Sparkle Upon the Water.” Sarah, who has covered Indigenous affairs for KOSU Radio since April 2024, is passionate about heart-centered storytelling. Since working for KOSU Radio, she has received awards from the Indigenous Journalists Association, the Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists. Sarah is from St. Louis, Missouri, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and New Media from the University of Mississippi in 2019. Following graduation, she worked at WLOX-TV in Biloxi, Mississippi, as a Producer-in-Residence Fellow and digital content producer. She pursued a Master of Science degree at Ohio University and was awarded the Outstanding Master’s Student Award in 2022 from the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. She has also presented her research findings about Indigenous media at the International Indigenous Climate Change Research Summit and International Indigenous Research Conference, and has received multiple fellowships from the Sundance Institute and the Indigenous Journalists Association.