​​Haley is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She was born and raised in Billings, Montana. She has worked as a professional photographer for over 17 years. She began her career as a concert photographer at the age of 15. Her portfolio includes bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Buckcherry, Avenged Sevenfold, Puddle of Mudd, Theory of a Deadman, Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, Sugarland, Brad Paisley, Loretta Lynn, and many more.
Haley is currently a UC President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Film & Digital Media department at UC Santa Cruz.
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Haley also serves as Program Coordinator for the
Native American Media Alliance, an L.A.-based non-profit dedicated to increasing authentic Native American self-representation in film, television, and new media.
After attending film school in Bozeman, Montana, Haley went on to work in the film industry. By the age of 20, Haley had worked on three feature films. She started as a Production Assistant but advanced to 2nd Assistant Director with her second feature film.
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Haley holds a BA in Indigenous and American Indian Studies from Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas, and an MA and Ph.D. in Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis. Haley was an Associate Instructor at UC Davis and taught in the Cinema and Digital Media and Native American Studies departments.
