Английская Википедия:Beverly Patkotak Grinage

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox officeholderBeverly Patkotak Grinage is an American academic administrator and community organizer. She was president of Iḷisaġvik College from 2005 to 2010. Grinage is a former executive director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and she was a public information officer for the North Slope Borough School District. Grinage has worked as campaign manager and previously was the owner of a publishing business. She was the managing editor of the Tundra Times and a member of the Alaska State Council on the Arts.

Career and education

Grinage was the managing editor of the Tundra Times.[1] In 1988, she was serving as a public information officer for the North Slope Borough School District.[2] In 1989, Grinage worked as a public information specialist, owned a publishing business in Utqiagvik, Alaska, and was appointed by Alaska Governor Steve Cowper to the Alaska State Council on the Arts in 1989 where she continued through 1991.[1][3] In 1990, she was the campaign manager for Edward Itta, a candidate for mayor of North Slope Borough.[4] She was serving as the executive director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission in 1991.[5] In 2004, Grinage was a community organizer in Barrow.[6] She is a shareholder of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC) and was a critic of the ASRC management. She organized the group, Shareholders First, to collect signatures at a shareholder meeting due to diminishing dividends. She stated her aim was to help the corporation and the board of directors which will benefit all parties.[7] Grinage succeeded Edna Ahgeak MacLean as president of Iḷisaġvik College in 2005. She was succeeded by Brooke Gondara in 2010.[8] Grinage completed a M.A. at University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2008. Her thesis was titled Inupiat self-determination through higher education.[9]

Personal life

Grinage is married to Kent Grinage. They have a daughter.[10] She advocates for the use of the Inupiaq language among youth.[11]

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