Pember is currently national correspondent for ICT News, formerly Indian Country Today. She has worked as an independent journalist focusing on Native American issues since 2000 and a newspaper photographer since 1986. In her writing and photography she has covered subjects including the history of Indian boarding schools, high rates of sexual assault among Native women, sex trafficking, missing and murdered Indigenous women, health, impact of historical trauma on Native communities and environmental challenges on Native lands, federal policy issues as well as cultural and spiritual topics. She is an enrolled citizen of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe tribe and is past president of the Native American Journalists Association. She currently lives in Cincinnati, Ohio with her family. Her book “Medicine River: a Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian boarding schools,” a concise history of boarding schools and the personal impact on her family, was released by Penguin Random House on April 202. Pember is currently conducting research for a follow up book with Penguin examining the MMIP crisis.