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:
The 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 Eugene Smith for the Northwest Arctic Borough School District;
Mayor Martha Whiting and Assembly President Larry Westlake,
Sr. for the Northwest Arctic Borough;
President/CEO Helen Bolen and Board Chair Guy Adams for Maniilaq Association;
and President/CEO Marie Greene and Board Chair Don Sheldon for NANA
Regional Corporation.
The Co-Chairs of NWALT are Helen Bolen, President /CEO of Maniilaq Association and Marie Greene, President/CEO of NANA Regional Corporation.