The Circumpolar Council (ICC) – is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that exists to be the unified voice and collective spirit of Alaskan Inuit, to promote, protect and advance Inuit culture and society. ICC-Alaska membership includes regional organizations that represent the Inupiat of the North Slope, Northwest and ; the St. Lawrence Yupik; and the Central Yup’ik and Cup’ik of the -Kuskokwim region.

In considering nominations to the SEARCH science steering committee, we looked at those that hold the scientific expertise needed and the understanding of our culture and knowledge. Julie Raymond- Yakoubian is uniquely qualified to join the science steering committee and has demonstrated her commitment to advancing scientific knowledge of the in addition to brining forward our Indigenous Knowledge through collaborative work with our communities.

We thank SEARCH for this opportunity to nominate Julie Raymond-Yakoubian.

Name and Contact Information: Julie Raymond-Yakoubian Social Science Program Director, Kawerak Incorporated, Nome, AK 907-443-4273 [email protected] PO Box 924, Girdwood, AK 99587

Areas of expertise: cultural , western Alaska, community-based and community-driven research, tribal consultation, community outreach, the human dimensions of climate change, human-animal-environment relationships, Indigenous Knowledge (IK), climate change-policy/science/IK linkages

Brief Statement: Ms. Raymond-Yakoubian is an Anthropologist and has been the Social Science Program Director at Kawerak, Inc. in Nome, Alaska for over eight years. Kawerak is the Alaska Native non-profit tribal consortium for the Bering Strait region of Alaska. In her position at Kawerak she collaborates with tribes on social science research that documents Indigenous Knowledge on a variety of topics. Her recent work has included research on ice seal and habitat (mapping), subsistence hunting areas and related Indigenous Knowledge; Indigenous Knowledge of ocean currents; salmon and non-salmon fish harvest and Indigenous Knowledge; climate change and climate adaptations; vessel traffic; salmon bycatch; research impacts to Indigenous communities; and other issues. Through her work at Kawerak, Ms. Raymond-Yakoubian has collaborated with 20 tribes and several hundred tribal members. She is very familiar with community concerns and observations relating to climate change, (such as coastal ecosystem changes, erosion and ) and has translated community concerns into actionable policy recommendations and frequently presents tribal concerns (or assists tribes in doing so) to policy makers and resource managers at public meetings, inter-agency meetings, co-management meetings, and other venues.

Ms. Raymond-Yakoubian would be an asset to the SEARCH team because of her experience in western Alaska working closely with Indigenous communities that are on the front line of climate change, her broad knowledge of the observations, concerns and questions that communities have on this topic, and her collaborations with communities to document such changes. She has presented community information on this issue and others (at state, national and international venues) and has continuing positive relationships with communities throughout western Alaska and other parts of the state.

Ms. Raymond-Yakoubian has also collaborated on research projects with colleagues in other disciplines from around the US, as well as . She has organized Indigenous Knowledge and western science workshops to promote the exchange of knowledge and cooperation between communities and researchers and has organized panels at Kawerak’s annual regional conference, based in Nome, which included inviting and working with researchers in various disciplines so that they could present and discuss their research or other expertise to region residents and facilitating a two-way exchange of information. Ms. Raymond-Yakoubian has worked closely with the Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska over the pass four years. She is an active member of our Food Security Advisory Committee and has attended an international workshop on Ecosystem evaluation for the Inuit Circumpolar Council.

If selected to serve, Ms. Raymond-Yakoubian is committed to being an active committee member, is willing and able to participate in regular teleconferences, to attend 1-2 in-person meetings per year, and to participate in all of the SEARCH committee activities. Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, M.A. Nominee for the SEARCH Science Steering Committee Contact Information: PO Box 1628 Nome, Alaska 99762 +1 907-443-4273 [email protected] PhD Candidate (ABD, anticipated 2015)

Education University of Alaska Fairbanks PhD Candidate (ABD, anticipated 2015) Anthropology EPSCoR Graduate Fellowship 2008-2012 North Pacific Research Board Graduate Research Award 2010 Advisory Committee members: P. Schweitzer, D. Koester, M. Lowe, C. Caruthers University of Alaska Fairbanks M.A. Northern Studies 2002

University of Alaska Fairbanks M.A. Anthropology 2001 Geist Fund Award Recipient (University of Alaska Museum) Ruth Croxton Memorial Fellowship Recipient James W. VanStone Advanced Graduate Scholarship Recipient (Alaska Anthropological Assn.)

University of New Mexico B.S. Anthropology 1998 Magna Cum Laude in Anthropology Magna Cum Laude in the General Honors Program Minor: Earth and Planetary Sciences

EMPLOYMENT Social Science Program Director, Kawerak Incorporated, Nome, Alaska, 2007 to present

Sole Proprietor, Cultural Resources Management business, Alaska, 2006-2007

Archaeological Research Associate, Center for the Environmental Management of Military Lands, Fairbanks, Alaska, 2004-2006

Archaeologist (Review and Compliance), State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, Office of History and Archaeology, Anchorage, Alaska, 2002-2004

Archaeologist, U.S. Forest Service, Tongass National Forest, Craig, Alaska, 2001

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS, REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS AND THESES Gadamus, L. and J. Raymond-Yakoubian 2015 Qualitative participatory mapping of seal and walrus harvest and habitat areas: Documenting indigenous knowledge, preserving local values, and discouraging misuse. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 6(1): 76-93. http://kawerak.org/forms/nr/QPMSWH.pdf

Kawerak Social Science Program 2013 Food for the Soul: Bering Strait Non-Salmon Fish Preparation and Recipes. Compiled by Meghan Topkok and Julie Raymond-Yakoubian. Nome: Kawerak Social Science Program. http://www.kawerak.org/forms/nr/nonsalmon%20recipe%20book.pdf 2014 Little Diomede Iñupiaq Glossary and Walrus Preparation Guide. Nome: Kawerak Social Science Program. (Julie Raymond-Yakoubian: compiler) http://www.kawerak.org/forms/nr/DIO%20glossary%20prep%20guide.pdf

Myers, K.W., R.V. Walker, N.D. Davis, J.A. Armstrong, W.J. Fournier, N. J. Mantua, and J. Raymond- Yakoubian. 2010. Climate-ocean effects on Chinook salmon. Arctic Yukon Kuskokwim Sustainable Salmon Initiative, Project Final Product. SAFS-UW-1003, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle.

Oceana and Kawerak, Inc. 2014 Bering Strait Marine Life and Subsistence Data Synthesis. Jointly produced and distributed by Oceana and Kawerak, Inc. (Julie Raymond-Yakoubian, contributing author) http://oceana.org/en/news-media/publications/reports/the- bering-strait-marine-life-and- subsistence-data-synthesis

Raymond-Yakoubian, B., L. Kaplan, M. Topkok, J. Raymond-Yakoubian. forthcoming “The World has Changed”: Iŋalit Traditional Knowledge of Walrus in the Bering Strait. Final report for North Pacific Research Board project 1013. Nome: Kawerak Social Science Program. Nome, Alaska.

Raymond-Yakoubian, Julie forthcoming Conceptual and Institutional Frameworks for Protected Areas and the status of indigenous involvement: Considerations for the Bering Strait Region of Alaska. In Herrmann, T.M. and Martin, T. (Eds.) (forthcoming) Governance of Land and Protected Territories in the Circumpolar Arctic. Springer.

2014 Indigenous Knowledge and Use of Bering Strait Region Ocean Currents. Nome: Kawerak Social Science Program. http://www.kawerak.org/forms/nr/OceanCurrents%20book%20for%20web.pdf 2013 ‘When the fish come, we go fishing’: Local Ecological Knowledge of Non-Salmon Fish Used for Subsistence in the Bering Strait Region. Final report to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for Study 10-151. http://www.kawerak.org/forms/nr/Non-Salmon%20Report.pdf 2013 Supernatural Phenomena, Sacred Sites and Indigenous Identity in the Bering Strait Region of Alaska. Paper presented at the conference Protecting the Sacred: Recognition of Sacred Sites of Indigenous Peoples for Sustaining Nature and Culture in Northern and Arctic Regions. September 2013, Rovaniemi, Finland. 2012 Participation and Resistance: Tribal Involvement in Fisheries and Management and Policy. In C. Carothers, K.R. Criddle, C.P. Chambers, P.J. Cullenberg, J.A. Fall, A.H. Himes-Cornell, J.P. Johnsen, N.S. Kimball, C.R. Menzies, and E.S. Springer (eds.), Fishing People of the North: Cultures, Economies, and Management Responding to Change. Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Pp.117-130. http://www.kawerak.org/forms/nr/Participation%20and%20Resistance.pdf 2011 Salmon and Identity in Alaska’s Bering Strait Region. Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology annual meeting. April 2011, Seattle, WA. 2009 Climate-Ocean Effects on Chinook Salmon: Local Traditional Knowledge Component. Final report to the Arctic Yukon Kuskokwim Sustainable Salmon Initiative for project 712. http://www.kawerak.org/forms/nr/Climate-Ocean%20Chinook%20LTK.pdf 2009 Book Review: Being and Place Among the Tlingit (T. Thornton). Journal of Northern Studies, 2. 2002 Distance Activism and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. M.A. thesis for the Northern Studies Department, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 2001 “They left their teacups full and their Zeniths in the house”: Innoko River Population Movements and Migrations. M.A. thesis for the Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Raymond-Yakoubian, Julie, Yury Khokhlov and Anastasia Yarzutkina 2014 Indigenous Knowledge and Use of Bering Strait Region Ocean Currents. Final report to the National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program for Cooperative Agreement H99111100026. http://www.kawerak.org/forms/nr/OC%20report%20for%20web.pdf and http://www.kawerak.org/forms/nr/OceanCurrents%20book%20for%20web.pdf

SELECTED OTHER ACTIVITIES • Member of the Aleutian Bering Climate Vulnerability Assessment expert team (current) • Board Member of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, 2011 to present • Referee on research proposals for the US National Science Foundation and the North Pacific Research Board • Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH) project Associate • Adjunct Instructor (Anthropology), Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks, Northwest Campus 2012-2013 • Organizer: Traditional and Western Knowledge of Ocean Currents workshop. Nome, AK 2013. • Western Alaska Interdisciplinary Science Conference, “Rural Science in Action”, 2013 planning Committee • Invited Panelist at the September 2013 Coast Guard Academy, Center for Maritime Policy and Strategy workshop: Resilient Ports, Marine Transportation Systems and Maritime in an Era of Global Environmental Change, Indigenous Communities and Arctic Shipping panel, New London, Connecticut • Invited Participant at the May 2014 The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in the Arctic workshop, CAFF/Arctic Council project, Reykjavik, 2014 • Invited Presenter at the June 2014 IARPC Food Security Webinar: Contributions to Understandings of Food Security in the Bering Strait Region of Alaska. • Invited Presenter at the September 2014 Arctic Waterways Safety Committee meeting, “Subsistence and Food Security Concerns Related to Increased Shipping”, Anchorage, Alaska • Invited Panelist at the2015 Arctic Encounters Symposium, Traditional Knowledge Panel, Seattle, Washington • Advisory Committee member for the Inuit Circumpolar Council’s project, Building a Conceptual Framework on How to Assess Food Security from an Inuit Perspective • Co-organizer of the 2015 Bering Strait Cultural Heritage Field School (for indigenous high school-aged students from the Kawerak region) • Member of the Caleb Lumen Pungowiyi Memorial Scholarship Selection Committee • Member of the Nome Cultural Planners Group

PROFESSIONAL FUNDING (recent) • National Science Foundation (Arctic Social Sciences) and Kawerak, Inc. ANCSA fund Project: Knowledge of the Supernatural Environment: A study of Bering Strait residents knowledge, beliefs and experiences (principal investigator) • National Science Foundation (Arctic Social Sciences), the Oak Foundation, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Project: Community-Based Documentation of Ice Seals and Walrus (lead principal investigator) • North Pacific Research Board Project: Diomede Traditional Knowledge of Walrus (co-principal investigator) • National Park Service, Shared Beringian Heritage Program Project: Indigenous Knowledge and Use of Bering Strait Region Ocean Currents (principal investigator)

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Subsistence Management Project: Local Ecological Knowledge of Non-Salmon Fish Used for Subsistence in the Bering Strait (principal investigator) • Arctic Yukon Kuskokwim Sustainable Salmon Initiative Project: Traditional Knowledge of Norton Sound/Bering Strait Salmon Populations (co-principal investigator)