Cierra Bettens

Cierra Bettens is a mixed settler and Red River Métis journalist, student and critical media studies researcher from Manitoba. She hosts the weekly APTN News InFocus podcast and previously worked as a Winnipeg reporter-correspondent for APTN National News.

Her research explores Indigenous digital sovereignty in an age of data colonialism and AI expansionism. Through experimental research-creation and storytelling, she looks at ways to imagine and chart alternative tech futures.