In Category of Diversity/Equity/ Inclusion Sports Content as a Producer & Talent Feature for “Buffalo Sabres Native American Heritage Night”
The 66th Annual NY Emmy Awards took place October 28th-30th, 2023. For the first time, there were three ceremonies held on two different days celebrating the nominees. On October 28th, both the Creative Arts Ceremony & The 66th Annual NY Emmy Awards Gala took place at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Then the first Annual NY Emmy Sports Awards ceremony took place on October 30th at the prestigious Paley Center for Media in New York.
Congratulations to Jocelyn Jones (Seneca) for being recognized with an Emmy Award for her work with the Buffalo Sabres.
The NY Emmy Awards “encourage the pursuit of excellence and promote the highest standards of quality in professional, technical and personal achievement in the arts and sciences of television by conferring the industry’s classic, and most coveted peer recognition symbol of distinction, the Emmy.”
The Sabres earned recognition for their Native American Heritage Night feature on Jocelyn Jones, who is also credited as a producer.
DIVERSITY/EQUITY/INCLUSION SPORTS CONTENT
Buffalo Sabres Native American Heritage Night: Jocelyn Jones – December 4, 2022
• Michelle Girardi Zumwalt, Producer/Director
• Scott Balzer, Editor
• Chrisanne Bellas, Executive Producer
• Drew Boeing, Executive Producer
• Jocelyn Jones, Producer & Talent Feature
Jocelyn shared the following about her recent accolade:
“I am happy to announce that I won a NY Sports EMMY Award in the Category of Diversity/Equity/Inclusion Sports Content as a Producer and Talent Feature of “Buffalo Sabres Native American Heritage Night: Jocelyn J. Jones- December 4, 2022”!
I honor and give thanks to our Creator and Mother Earth for walking about the earth another day. Creation is breathtakingly beautiful.
I would like to give a special thanks to my family for their constant support so I can do this kind of work while raising a family as a single, working mother.
My gratitude also goes to Michelle Girardi Zumwalt, Executive Producer, the former Pegula Sports & Entertainment production team, the Seneca Nation government and the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum for making this collaboration possible to create big together.
To my ancestors and elders, I’m truly grateful for walking the earth before me to make this path possible for me. You are our true champions.
To all the little Rez kids with big dreams, keep dreaming big! The world sees you. Visibility of our indigenous people in these types of spaces make profound impacts for the youth to come.”
Ja:göh, Jocelyn!
