Adreanna Rodriguez
Associate Producer
Associate Producer
Adreanna is a Lakota/Chicana artist based in Oakland, CA. As a storyteller, her research, audio, and filmmaking revolve around issues of social/climate justice for indigenous communities, as well as femme stories.
As a teenager, VICE journalist Adreanna Rodriguez was given a choice that would alter the course of her life. Later, she started to wonder if she made the right decision.
In the midst of the pandemic, a new foster care model based on community living and known as a "children's village" has opened up to foster youth on the Cheyenne River Reservation.
Child welfare is an already stressed system in Native communities, leaving children even more susceptible to the impacts of COVID-19.