Trina Roache is a member of the Glooscap First Nation and an award-winning Mi’kmaw video journalist. A University of King’s College alumnus (BJ ’00), Trina has worked in radio and TV for CBC, APTN National News, and APTN Investigates. She’s covered stories in the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq, Wolostoqey, and Pestomuhkati Nations, from politics to policing to land protection.

Her work has earned regional and national awards from the Atlantic Journalism Awards, Amnesty International Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists, and the Native American Journalists Association.

Trina brings a Mi’kmaw perspective and years of experience in visual storytelling to her position on faculty as the Rogers Chair in Journalism.