Darcy Peter is Our New Aleutian & Bering Sea Initiative Coordinator!
Darcy Peter is Gwich’in Athabascan from Beaver, Alaska, located along the Yukon River. She grew up living a subsistence way of life: fishing, hunting, and trapping in Beaver. Darcy received her BS from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. Following her graduation in 2017, Darcy worked for Alaska Native non-profits in environmental science, policy, and social science. She has a broad understanding of Arctic policy, including tribal, city, corporate, state, academic, federal, non-profit, etc. She is on six boards that range from state-wide (Alaska) to international, and is a firm believer that all research, if properly communicated to locals and policy-makers, has the power to induce change. Darcy comes to us most recently from the Woodwell Climate Research Center where she helped research scientists learn how to work in more equitable and productive partnerships with Indigenous communities. She has also been an important contributor to the Steering Committee of the Northwest Boreal Partnership and is helping lead the Indigenous Knowledges working group of the Northern Connections Project that Northern Latitudes launched in 2020. In her free time, Darcy enjoys traveling, subsistence hunting, fishing, and trapping in Alaska.