Leadership Team :

NANA Regional Corporation, Maniilaq Association, the Northwest Arctic Borough and the Northwest Arctic Borough School District form the Northwest Arctic Leadership Team (NWALT).

Goal:

NWALT has been directed to examine various region-wide issues, find solutions and recommend policy and resource allocation to their respective Board/Assembly. The members of the NWALT work together to service the people of the region, maximize resources and minimize duplication, and promote strategies through grassroots involvement.

Brief History:

In June of 2003 the Northwest Arctic Higher Education Consortium drafted a resolution that created the Northwest Arctic Leadership Team. This resolution evolved from the need of the Consortium to integrate the leadership from the major regional organizations into a concise advisory team. The purpose of the new team was to take the regional organizations goals and seek common ground and support between them.

A meeting of the Assembly for the Northwest Arctic Borough, and the Boards for the Northwest Arctic Borough School District, NANA Regional Corporation, and Maniilaq Association, was held on September 29, 30, and October 1, 2004, in Kotzebue. The NANA Regional Elders Council and student representatives from each village were in attendance and participated.

The purpose of the meeting was to strengthen cooperative efforts between the organizations and provide a forum where the regional policy-making bodies would hear information together and have an opportunity to discuss a collaborative approach to addressing critical focus issues .

Membership of NWALT :

NWALT is composed of Superintendent Norman Eck and Board President Sandy Shroyer-Beaver for the Northwest Arctic Borough School District; Mayor Martha Whiting and Assembly President Walter Sampson for the Northwest Arctic Borough; President/CEO Ian Erlich and Board Chair Louie Commack for Maniilaq Association; and President/CEO Marie Greene and Board Chair Don Sheldon for NANA Regional Corporation.

The Co-Chairs of NWALT are Mayor Martha Whiting, Northwest Arctic Borough, and Marie Greene, President/CEO of NANA Regional Corporation.

Maniilaq Association
P.O. BOX 256
Kotzebue, AK 99752
907-442-3311
1-800-478-3311
www.maniilaq.org

NANA Regional Corp.
P.O. BOX 49
Kotzebue, AK 99752907-442-3301
1-800-478-3301
www.nana.com

Northwest Arctic Borough School District
P.O. BOX 51
Kotzebue, AK 99752
907-442-3472
www.nwarctic.org

Northwest Arctic Borough
P.O. BOX 1110
Kotzebue, AK 99752
907-442-2599
1-800-478-1110
www.nwabor.org