Patricia, "Patty" Loew (born 1952) is a journalist, professor, author, and community historian, broadcaster, documentary film maker, academic and advocate.
She has written extensively about Ojibwe treaty rights, sovereignty and the role of Native American media in communicating Indigenous world views.
Loew began her career as a journalist in La Crosse, beginning with television and radio reporting.
[2] She is currently Professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and is director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.
[4] In 2019 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received Wisconsin's Martin Luther King Jr. Heritage Award.