
March 17th and 18th, 2021
The Tanana Chiefs Conference 2021 Annual Convention and Full Board of Directors was held March 17th & 18th, 2021 at the Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks with the theme Resiliency and Renewal.
TCC Executive Board of Directors
Charlie Wright, Rampart
Secretary/Treasurer
Claude ‘Joe’ Petruska, Nikolai
Upper Kuskokwim Representative
Eugene Paul, Holy Cross
Lower Yukon Representative
Alex Hanna, Minto
Youth Advisor
TCC Regional Health Advisory Board
Andrew Jimmie, Minto
Yukon Tanana Representative
Martha Demoski, Nulato
Yukon Koyukuk Representative
Alaska Federation of Natives Village Representative
Julie Roberts-Hyslop
Tanana
TCC Education Council
Alfred Demientieff
Lower Yukon Representative
Nadine Carroll
Yukon Flats Representative
Gertie Sam
Yukon Koyukuk Representative
Interior Athabascan Tribal College Board Trustees
Martha Runkle
Upper Kuskokwim Subregion
Jenny Pelkola, Louden
Yukon Flats Representative
Interior Regional Housing Authority – Board of Commissioners
Patricia McDonald, Healy Lake
Seat A
Marvin Deacon, Grayling
Seat B
Valerie Nurr’araaluk Davidson, a Yup’ik and enrolled tribal member of the Orutsaramiut Traditional Native Council of Bethel, was appointed by Governor Walker as Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Health & Social Services in 2014. During her tenure, Davidson implemented Medicaid Expansion, Medicaid Reform and the Alaska Tribal Child Welfare Compact. Davidson served as Alaska’s first Alaska Native female Lieutenant Governor in the final weeks of the Walker Administration. Davidson previously served as Senior Director of Legal & Intergovernmental Affairs for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, and as Chair of the Tribal Technical Advisory Group to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Davidson currently serves as President to the Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage. Davidson considers her brilliant, funny, and kind children to be her greatest accomplishment.
Here one can find the PDF files provided to this years convention attendees.