To honor and celebrate Indigenous women leaders here in the 49th state on International Women's Day, the Alaska World Affairs Council held a panel at the Bear Tooth Theatre.
Alaska Native Village Corporation AssociationThe hour-long discussion included topics such as diversifying revenue resources, gender equality and pay, federal infrastructure funds, the impacts of inflation and disastrous salmon runs, climate change, and getting the younger generations involved.
“One of the things that we’re challenged by is recruiting younger generations of folks into service on these boards and coming to work at the corporation, learning about it and hopefully working up in to the executive positions, the management positions,” Carlson-Van Dort said.
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