Speaking: Dr. Heather Sauyaq J. Gordon, Iñupiaq member of Nome Eskimo Community
One Health invites registration for their upcoming seminar, Engaging Alaska Natives in Health and Wellbeing Research. This seminar will be presented by Dr. Heather Sauyaq J. Gordon, Iñupiaq member of Nome Eskimo Community.
Dr. Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon was born and raised in Homer, Alaska. She is Iñupiaq and an enrolled tribal member of the Nome Eskimo Community. Gordon has a B.A. in Race and Ethnic Studies from the University of Redlands in California, a M.S. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in Indigenous Studies with an emphasis in Indigneous Sustainability from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. For her dissertation, Self-determination, Sustainability, and Wellbeing in the Alaska Native Community of Ninilchik, Gordon conducted ethnographic futures research interviews to explore how individual, community, and tribal self-determining actions lead to community sustainability and wellbeing. She not only wrote a dissertation but produced a 20-year roadmap for the community outlining the results of the research for community development. Heather is an Iñupiaq member of Nome Eskimo Community in Northwest Alaska, and employed at the Administration for Native Americans as a Management and Program Analyst in the Division of Program Evaluation and Planning.