Collyn Combs is a member of the Osage Nation and a general news reporter for Osage News in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. She is a descendant of original allottee Alice Mosier Riddle Stobaugh. She attended Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, where she earned an associate degree in mass communications in 2020. She later attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in multimedia journalism in 2025.