Who We Are

Dorinda Kewan came to Alaska with her parents and siblings as a little girl in 1968. She has strong family ties in Washington and spent her high school and college years there. After graduating from Washington State University with a bachelor’s degree in foreign language, she returned to Alaska in 1987 and settled in Port Lions, on Kodiak Island. Her husband and their four children are all of Alutiiq descent, as are their seven grandchildren.

Dorinda has a long-standing history of advocating and supporting her Port Lions community and the Kodiak region. She is an accomplished grant writer, and was employed by the Native Village of Port Lions for approximately twenty years in a variety of administrative positions.

She is a strong advocate of rural education, as demonstrated by her years of service to the Port Lions Advisory School Board and the Kodiak Island Borough School District Indian Education Act parent committee. She emphasizes the importance of investing in rural and Alaska Native education and was co-facilitator and author of the 2015 Kodiak Rural and Alaska Native Education Plan that was developed under the Kodiak Archipelago Leadership Institute (KALI).

Dorinda has served on the Port Lions City Council for a total of 13 years and has been Mayor of Port Lions since November of 2018. The Port Lions City Council oversees essential community infrastructure including water, sewer, landfill, small boat harbor, ferry dock, public safety facilities, and community library. She is very proud of the city’s partnership with the Native Village of Port Lions and the work both entities do toward sustaining a better future for their citizens.

Dorinda served on the Board of Directors for KALI, including the position of secretary-treasurer, until October of 2022 when she resigned from the board to become an employee. She was a project manager for KALI from 2022 until December of 2025 when she became KALI’s Executive Director.

In addition to her City of Port Lions and KALI duties, Dorinda currently serves on the Alaska Marine Highway Operations Board.

Alaska Conservation Foundation Vice President of Partnerships

Aaron has worked in Alaska for over 27 years and is focused on building equitable partnerships between agencies, Tribes, Indigenous Organizations, nonprofits, academia, industry, and rural communities that address large-scale conservation and climate adaptation issues. He has worked for Alaska Conservation Foundation since 2018, where he helps provide and direct resources to 3 regional resilience efforts known as the Northern Latitudes Partnerships. He also serves on the Steering Committee for a fourth regional partnership that he helped found in 2024, called the Alaska South Coast Partnership in south central Alaska. He previously served for 5 years on the Steering Committee of the Sustainable Southeast Partnership and helped fund and launch a local, cold climate food security agriculture program, Alaska Resilience Farms. Prior to coming to ACF, he worked for 21 years in the federal government for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service, where he worked in wildlife biology, natural resource management, bioregional planning, and partnership development. He has B.S. degrees in Fisheries and Wildlife Management and Geography from Utah State University and a Master’s in Natural Resource Management from the University of Arizona. He is grateful to have lived on the lands of the Dena’ina people in Anchorage for 27 years and has recently relocated his family to his mom’s birth country of Ireland.

Isaac joined CRRC as a coordinator of the Alaska South Coast Partnership (ASCP), a network of community leaders -guided by indigenous values- working together to support a holistic response to the resilience challenges and opportunities of the Alutiiq and Eyak homeland. In this role, Isaac helps bring people together to share knowledge, uplift local leadership, and implement community-driven solutions. What the ASCP looks like in each community varies, but the over-arching vision is to help foster an equitable and prosperous future rooted in reciprocity, wellbeing, and joy -a future where everyone’s gifts are shared and valued, ecosystems, culture, and economies flourish side by side, and mutual wellbeing is the norm.

Receiving a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Gonzaga University, with course concentration in environmental studies and organizational leadership, Isaac comes from an interdisciplinary educational background directly aligned with the ASCP. The community on Dena’ina Elnena and Dënéndeh land is home for Isaac, and he is delighted to be with CRRC and support the Chugach region.

Jamie Foode is from Cordova, Alaska. She is from a commercial fishing family and has participated in both commercial and subsistence fishing since 2004. Jamie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Rural Development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (2021), and a Master of Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma (2023). Since 2020 she has served as a member for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Copper River/Prince William Sound Advisory Committee.

Jamie loves the Alaskan wilderness, enjoying hiking, hunting, foraging, fishing and backcountry snowboarding. She is a volunteer member of the Mt. Eyak Ski Patrol. She is of Sugpiaq descent, and an enrolled member of the Native Village of Eyak. She is very active in her culture and in the museum field, working to weave and steward Indigenous voices into historical stories that are too often focused only on the dominant culture.

Willow Hetrick-Price is the Executive Director of CRRC. She is responsible for the nonprofit Inter-Tribal Fish and Wildlife Commission, which is involved in projects and programs related to natural resources, subsistence, climate change, environmental management and research, in addition to community economic development related to natural resources and the environment. She is also responsible for identifying funding sources and developing funding proposals with and on behalf of the Tribes of the Chugach region. Willow serves on the Board of the Prince William Sound Stewardship Foundation as Secretary and the Anchorage Advisory Committee to the Boards of Fish and Game as Secretary.

Willow has a bachelor of science degree in marine resource management (2006) with a certificate in aquaculture (2006) and a master of science degree in natural resources and environmental management (2009), both from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She has a graduate certificate in environmental regulations and permitting (2018) from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a master’s of public administration with a focus on natural resources (2018) from the University of Alaska Southeast. She has 14 years of professional experience combined with a lifetime of local knowledge of Alaska’s natural resources and natural resource development history. Willow has experience collaborating on projects with stakeholders at the state, federal, public, and NGO level.

Carolyn has a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Western State Colorado University in Gunnison. It was there that she learned to love rural landscapes in harsh climates, one day surviving a bone chilling bike ride to class in -17ºF temps! After graduating, she found herself working in a variety of sectors including Wilderness Therapy and Ski Patrol, before landing back in the environmental industry with the Forest Service. She has been a resident of Alaska since 2019 and began working for CRRC in 2026.

Diane Selanoff was born in the coastal village of Port Graham, Alaska, and now calls Valdez home. As the ASC Community Catalyst, Diane works to strengthen community connections and celebrate the region’s cultural vitality. A proud Sugpiat cultural bearer, Diane shares ancestral knowledge through teaching traditional arts such as fur sewing, beading, and carving across a variety of organizations and community programs.

Passionate about preserving heritage and sustaining Indigenous practices, Diane is dedicated to keeping cultural traditions and subsistence practices alive for future generations.