Experience

NANA

• United States
• Executive Offices
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Red Dog Shareholder/NANA Employment Director

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  Supporting shareholder employment related to hiring, training, and retention of NANA shareholders at Red Dog Mine including working directly with Teck, the Operator of the Mine and all NANA companies doing business at the Red Dog Mine. NANA is a for-profit Alaska Native corporation formed as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA), which was passed by Congress in 1971. NANA is owned by the more than 15,000 Iñupiaq shareholders, or descendants, who live in or have roots in northwest Alaska. Iñupiat have close ties to the land and to each other. The word Iñupiat means “real people” in Iñupiaq, the language. Show less



Teck Alaska

• Red Dog Mine

• Senior Advisor, Human Resources

  • Jan 2019 - Apr 2022

  Red Dog Operations is one of the world's largest zinc mines, located about 170 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle in northwest Alaska, near Kotzebue. In 1989, Red Dog Operations was developed through an innovative operating agreement between the operator Teck and the land-owner NANA, a Regional Alaska Native corporation owned by the Iñupiat people of northwest Alaska. The mine and concentrator properties are leased from, and were developed under the agreement with NANA. Red Dog is an open-pit truck-and-loader operation, using conventional drill and blast mining methods. Concentrates produced at Red Dog are shipped to our metallurgical facilities in Trail, British Columbia, and to customers in Asia and Europe. Show less



Arctic Slope Regional Corporation

• United States
• Holding Companies
• 200 - 300 Employee

• HR Manager

  • May 2013 - Jan 2019

  ASRC, dedicated to the highest quality of service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride and company spirit. To employees & shareholders alike, we are strengthening Alaska through our values. Although Arctic Slope Regional Corporation had humble beginnings, and there was a time the company’s leaders worked for no pay, it is now the largest Alaskan-owned company with over 10,000 employees. ASRC is a private, for-profit corporation that is owned by and represents the business interests of its 11,000 Iñupiat Eskimo shareholders in the villages of Point Hope, Point Lay, Wainwright, Atqasuk, Barrow, Nuiqsut, Kaktovik, and Anaktuvuk Pass. Some of the corporation’s shareholders live outside of the region in Alaska, with a small number residing in the Lower 48. Named Top 49 Alaskan-owned businesses ranked by gross revenues for 20 years in a row. Show less



Gana'A Yoo Limited

• Anchorage, Alaska Area

• HR Manager

  • Oct 2011 - Nov 2012

  Gana-A’Yoo, Limited was formed in 1978 after the shareholders of four Yukon River ANCSA village corporations voted to merge. The villages include Galena, Koyukuk, Nulato and Kaltag.The corporation is owned by more than 1100 shareholders of primarily Koyukon Athabascan descent. With a mission ‘to strengthen the pride of our people’ the board of directors chose Anchorage, AK as the location for their corporate office. Gana-A’Yoo is the parent company of Khotol Services Corporation and Gana-A’Yoo Services Corporation. Both companies have contracts through out the United States in custodial and food service and employee over 700 people. Show less



Kodiak Area Native Association

• United States
• Health and Human Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• HR Manager

  • Jan 2009 - Sep 2011

  The Kodiak Area Native Association was formed in 1966 as a 501 (C)(3) non-profit corporation providing health and social services for the Alaska Natives of the Koniag region. The Kodiak Area Native Association (KANA) service area includes the City of Kodiak and six Alaska Native villages: Akhiok, Karluk, Old Harbor, Ouzinkie, Port Lions, and Larsen Bay. Services provided by KANA include an Ambulatory Medical Care and Dental Care, Pharmacy, Contract Health, Community Health Aide Program, Substance Abuse Prevention, Intervention/Outreach, Social Services, non-clinical community Mental Health, and Youth Prevention Projects. Other services provided by the organization include Women, Infant and Children (WIC) program, Vocational Rehabilitation, Early Childhood programs, Education, Employment and Training programs, Infant Learning Program, a full service Fitness Center and Tribal Operations/Environmental Health. Voted by the Alaska Journal of Commerce and Best Companies Group as one of Alaska’s Best Places to Work. Show less