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Here ya go.. product of Kent State '91

http://www.unityjournalists.org/Contacts/Bios03/bios03.html

Matt Kelley (of chippewa descent)
Newsman
The Associated Press

Matt Kelley has covered the U.S. military and the war on terrorism from the Pentagon for The Associated Press since shortly after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before being transferred to the Pentagon, he was an investigative reporter on the AP's Special Assignment Team in Washington.

Kelley came to Washington in 1999 as a regional reporter for Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. He was a statehouse and general assignment reporter in the AP bureau in Phoenix from 1997 to 1999. Kelley also worked in AP bureaus in Champaign, Ill.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Montgomery, Ala.; and Chicago.

Kelley, who is of Chippewa descent, has been a member of the Native American Journalists Association since 1991 and has worked as a mentor for the college student newspaper project at several NAJA conventions and as a conference planner for the 1998 NAJA conference in Phoenix. He won the top NAJA feature writing for a 1999 article examining the legacy of abuse at American Indian boarding schools.

Other award-winning articles in Kelley's portfolio include an expose of brutality by Bureau of Indian Affairs police, a computer-aided analysis of gifts from lobbyists to Illinois? state lawmakers and an investigation of scholarships given as perks to friends and relatives of Illinois politicians.

Kelley was graduated in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in journalism from Kent State University.