Debra Utacia Krol
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Debra Utacia Krol is an award-winning journalist with an emphasis on Indigenous, environmental, and science issues who's fond of averring that "My beat is Indians." She is an enrolled member of the Xolon (also known as Jolon) Salinan Tribe from the Central California coastal ranges. In addition to more than a dozen other awards, Krol was named Best Beat Environmental Reporter by the Native American Journalists' Association.