Rob Capriccioso is the Washington D.C. Bureau Chief for Indian Country Today Media Network.[1][2] An enrolled citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, he covers the White House,[3] the United States Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, and presidential campaigns; 2004[4] and 2008.[5] He interviews such political officials as former White House Chief of Staff Pete Rouse,[6] Bolivian President Evo Morales,[7] former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff [4], members of Congress and tribal leaders. His reporting on indigenous issues was cited in testimony to Congress.[8]
One of a small number of Native American journalists to contribute to mainstream media, he conducts political writing and editing, served as a contributing editor to Campaigns and Elections Politics Magazine,[9] helped launch Politico, and appears on National Public Radio [10][11][12] to discuss Native and political topics of the day. In 2009-10, he was a contributor to True/Slant,[13] the Forbes-backed online network. His articles have appeared in American Indian Report, News from Indian Country, The New York Sun, High Country News, The American, Cultural Survival Quarterly, the New York Post's PageSix.com, Radar Magazine, TMZ.com, The New York Times and The Guardian,[14] He reported education and youth issues for Connect for Kids,[15] and Inside Higher Ed,[16] in Washington D.C. He is a political science and psychology alum of the University of Michigan. He resides in metro Washington DC.
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