Joseph Orozco

My mission is to be a driving force to bring Consensus Building workshops to Hoopa Valley as a means of creating the first Holistic Community Quality of Life Statement for the Hoopa Valley.  I believe the future of our people is within our common values we have as a people today.

My working and media experience includes, a founding board member of the Hoopa Valley Telecommunications Corporation, serving from 1979 to 1985. I co-established Tribal Radio Station, KIDE-FM, as the first Native American owned and operated non-commercial educational FM radio station in California.  I have only worked in Native Radio at and for KIDE-FM.  I took over the management role in 1988.  I served on the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Board of Directors and chaired that Board three years of my four-year term, 1990 to 1994.  I co-founded the Corporation of Public Broadcastin-funded Indigenous Communications Association a network of 15 Native radio stations in the United States from 1994 to 1998. 

I won the NFCB Silver Reel Award in 1999 for the California Indian Radio project program, “Balancing Life, Dancing in Time”, the story of reestablishing and participating in a Karuk Tribal Ceremony after its 99-year lapse.  I co-created a business plan for the Seven Rivers Radio Network with KZYX-Philo, CA, KMUD- Garberville, CA and KHSU-Arcata, CA. and, KIDE-Hoopa in 2004.  I established KIDE-FM as the first solar-powered radio station in California in 2005.  I co-produced “Dying for Water, Indians, Politics and Dead Fish in the Klamath River Basin” the story of the 2004 great fish kill and the tribal community reactions.  I was selected by the New American Media as one of four California Ethnic Media Champions of 2017.

 I continue to be a student of Holistic Management and Consensus Building.  “I will venture to take part of Rebuilding Native Nation actions for the Hoopa Valley Tribe.”