Allison Herrera

Allison Herrera is a senior reporter at APM Reports. She previously covered indigenous affairs for KOSU public radio in Oklahoma. While at KOSU, Herrera covered the U.S. Supreme Court decision McGirt v. Oklahoma, which resulted in one of the largest land transfers back to tribal nations. She covered reproductive rights for indigenous women.  Herrera won a 2023 Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for her work on the podcast “In Trust” about the policies that allowed the massive transfer of wealth and land from Osage citizens to white landowners in Oklahoma. Herrera also reported for PRX’s “The World,” where she investigated the global surrogacy industry in Ukraine and reproductive rights in Argentina. Her most recent work includes the Audible Original “Tribal Justice: The Struggle for Black Rights on Native Land” about descendants of formerly enslaved citizens of the Five Tribes in Oklahoma and their fight for justice in the state’s courts. Herrera’s Native ties are from her Xolon Salinan tribal heritage.