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Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Teacher
Location	Hooper Bay, AK, United States
Introduction	I was born in Indiana, which got me hankering after other places at an early age. After getting my degree at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, I moved to rural Alaska to teach in 1999. Loving Alaska but feeling I lacked the skills to teach Alaskan kids well, I moved to Seattle for four years to complete my Master's in Special Education and Reading at Seattle University. I will always consider Seattle one of my homes; I am in love with the city -- especially since my daughter, Esther, was born there in 2004. But her extended family lives in Hooper Bay, so in addition to always wanting to live in Alaska again, I wanted to raise Esther to know Hooper Bay and her Yup'ik heritage, so we moved back in 2005. Esther's younger sister Iris made her debut a couple years ago, and so we are a family of three women on the tundra. Now I feel like we are really getting into the subsistence lifestyle, despite working full time during the school year and traveling a bit outside during the summer, we make getting outside constant priority.