Val Hoeppner

Ms. Hoeppner oversees multimedia instruction for the Chips Quinn Scholars program, the American Indian Journalism Institute, the Diversity Institute Multimedia Scholars Program and other Freedom Forum academic initiatives. Ms. Hoeppner is an adjunct professor of journalism at Belmont University, Nashville. She is the incoming education liaison for the Associated Press Photo Managers and directs the multimedia student project at the Associated Press Managing Editors annual convention. Ms. Hoeppner is a member of the Native American Journalists Association and serves on the multimedia committee for UNITY, Journalists of Color. Ms. Hoeppner came to the Freedom Forum from The Indianapolis Star where she was the multimedia director and previously the deputy director of photography. Ms. Hoeppner spent 10 years as the photo editor and a staff photographer at the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, S.D. Ms. Hoeppner has a bachelor’s degree from Truman State University in Kirksville, Mo.