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Wahl named director of UAF’s Bristol Bay ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø

The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø of Rural and Community Development has appointed Wanda Wahl to serve as director of the Bristol Bay ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in Dillingham. Wahl has served as interim director since May 2021 and first worked there in 1985. The appointment was effective May 7.

Wahl is a lifelong Dillingham resident. She is an enrolled tribal member of Curyung, the tribe on whose ancestral land the Bristol Bay ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is located. She holds a bachelor's degree in business from Linfield ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in McMinnville, Oregon.

Bristol Bay ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø serves 33 remote villages scattered over a 55,000-square-mile area, including Bristol Bay, the Alaska Peninsula, the Pribilof Islands and the Aleutian Islands.

Bristol Bay is one of the five rural campuses in the UAF college system focused on serving Alaska Native and nontraditional students through online, audio and face-to-face learning opportunities.

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