Oil Patch Bits: IABA announces Alvanna-Stimpfle as executive director

The Iñuit Arctic Business Alliance is pleased to announce Megan Alvanna-Stimpfle as its executive director. Alvanna-Stimpfle currently serves as chief of the King Island Traditional Council. She was recently selected by the Alaska Federation of Natives board of directors to deliver the AFN keynote address with Emil Notti on the first day of the three-day meeting which took place Oct. 20-22 at the Carlson Center in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Alvanna-Stimpfle formerly served as a legislative assistant for U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Washington, D.C., and was responsible for policies addressing infrastructure and sanitation, housing, health delivery, public safety and justice, land management as well as fish and wildlife management for Alaska Native and rural Alaskans. She assisted in organizing the Arctic Imperative Summit in 2011 and 2012 to bring Arctic and coastal Alaskan issues to the forefront of American policy.

After more than a decade in Washington, D.C., she most recently lived in Nome, Alaska, working as a quota and acquisitions analyst for Norton Sound Economic Development Corp., learning the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council process. She also led an effort on behalf of Kawerak Inc. and Norton Sound Health Corp. to reform the water and sewer regulatory structure within Alaska to streamline the delivery of sanitation infrastructure investment in Alaska.

Alvanna-Stimpfle was born and raised in Nome and is of King Island Iñupiaq heritage. She holds a master’s degree in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from George Mason University.

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