Patty Talahongva is from the Hopi tribe and is based in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a journalist, documentary producer and news executive, and one of FRONTLINE's Investigative Journalist Equity Initiative filmmakers. She was the first Native American anchor of a national news program in the United States and is involved in Native American youth and community development projects. A past president of the Native American Journalists Association, she was the recipient of their Medill Milestone Achievement Award. In 2019, she was hired by Indian Country Today to create the first national television newscast produced by an all-Indigenous news staff and focused on Indigenous Peoples.

As an independent journalist, she produced several documentaries including one for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian on American Indian code talkers; a series of videos for the Native Voices exhibit at the Penn Museum; and Lady Warriors about a girl’s cross-country team at a high school on the border of the Hopi and Navajo reservations. Her work can been seen on PBS, the HBO Family channel and CBS News.