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Bill Hill is a lifelong Alaskan. The son of two teachers, Bill spent nearly 25 years as a teacher, principal, and superintendent. In 2023, he was named Alaska Superintendent of the Year. A Dena’ina Athabascan, Bill grew up in a small village in Bristol Bay. His childhood was spent subsistence fishing and hunting, trapping, and raising and racing sled dog teams with his family. Bill started setnetting as a young kid, before joining his dad on the family drift boat when he was 12. He’s fished every fishing season in Bristol Bay since. He’s also worked union construction jobs in rural Alaska, from building houses to working on remote health clinics and canneries, and the sewer system in the Bristol Bay Borough. Bill and his wife started Bristol Bay Brailer, a textile manufacturing business that supplies custom-made brailers for the commercial fishing fleet. Bill is the father of four, and Chada (grandpa) to 7. His family has lived in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau, and he and his wife, Diane, are now back in Naknek, a population of 470.

website - https://billhillforalaskans.com

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Charlene has served in many spaces as an advocate for Indigenous Womxn, Indigenous Sovereignty, climate justice, and Indigenous rights to health and wellbeing. Charlene is a lifelong learner in both her cultural traditions and decolonizing academia. She is a mother to Evan Lukluan. She earned her B.A. in American Ethnic Studies with a minor in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, an M.A. in Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development, and a PhD from the Indigenous Studies program at UAF. Charlene gratefully resides in Anchorage on the territories of the Dena'ina peoples. Here she has taught the Iñupiaq language and is part of the Kingikmiut dance group with her son.

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Website - https://www.dataforindigenousjustice.org/

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Asa Hohman earned his law degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Montana and an LL.M. from the University of Washington. Shortly after his admission to the bar, Asa began focusing his practice on immigration and small-business formation for immigrant-owned businesses (as well as other small businesses). He practices in the full breadth of immigration, including asylum and removal defense, but focuses his practice on family-based immigration and business/employment immigration. He is an active member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Alaska Bar Immigration Section, and the Ukraine Immigration Task Force.