Biography
Karla Booth is Tsimshian of the Raven Clan. She considers the communities of Metlakatla, Alaska; Kake, Alaska and Seattle, Washington as home. She is a graduate of UAA with a B.A. in English with an emphasis in Alaska Native Literature and a minor in Alaska Native Studies. Currently as the Alaska Native & Rural Outreach Program (ANROP) Coordinator she provides outreach and support to campus residents that identify as being Alaska Native, Native American, or from a rural Alaska community. As the Cama-i Room Coordinator Karla coordinates programs and activities that have an Alaska Native, Native American, and Alaskan cultural focus. Karla is accessible to students in the afternoon and early evenings. She values perpetuating cultural pride and self confidence in students. Karla enjoys celebrating indigenous cultures, providing education about the first people of Alaska, making fry bread, doing arts and crafts, reading, riding the public bus and performing with the Lepquinm Gumilgit Gagoadim Tsimshian Dancers. Her favorite foods are herring eggs, seaweed with salmon eggs, and gummy bears.
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