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Lisa Ka’illjuus Lang

Lisa Lang
Sealaska Director Lisa Ka’illjuus Lang

Together as Sealaska Directors, we faced three years of COVID; a phenomenal life-changing time. We have shown our focus on honesty, resiliency, and flexibility. Our company has moved into the global arena, with a newly named production side called, “Woocheen.”

This expansion was created and is the recognized successful operations branch, a result of careful, well-engineered and methodical movement over time away from and out of a strictly extraction mentality. Today, the new production side of Sealaska is a passion-filled vision of businesses created to support the health of our oceans and lands. The recent and continued success of our ocean health businesses allows for expanded social programs which support education, language and culture. I proudly elect to live in my home community of Hydaburg, Alaska, on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast Alaska. I see the potential for the inclusion of our vision. The opportunity to implement a long-overdue economic transition is upon us. We have the ability to align with the transformation and provide the types of jobs and infrastructure identified and supported by our local grassroot entities. Our ability to thrive on our terms is our future, and our current Board and I are energetic and willing to do the work.

AGE: 64

CITY / STATE: Hydaburg, Alaska

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS OCCUPATION FOR PAST FIVE (5)

YEARS: Executive Director, Xaadas Kil Kuyaas Foundation (XKKF) from 2010 to present; Chief Justice of the Tlingit and Haida Tribal Court from 2020 to present; and owner of Minority Woman-Owned Business Lisaverosh Consulting and Niislang Naay, LLC.

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS POSITIONS WITHIN SEALASKA CORPORATION AND/OR SEALASKA SUBSIDIARIES:

Member of the Sealaska Board of Directors since 2020; chair of the Compensation Committee; serves on the Governance-Nominations Committee and Communications Subcommittee; serves as a manager on the Haa Aaní LLC Board of Managers; a trustee of the Elders’ Settlement Trust; and a trustee of the Sealaska Settlement Trust.

DIRECTORSHIP(S) HELD IN OTHER

ENTITIES: Member of the Haida Corporation Board of Directors.

REQUIRED DISLOSURE: For the

2022-2023 grant period, Xaadas Kil Kuyaas Foundation (XKKF), for which Director Lang Serves as the Executive Director, received a grant in excess of $20,000 from the Sealaska Language Revitalization Fund.

EDUCATION: Master of Arts, Simon Fraser University; First Nations Linguistics, Xaad Kíl; Juris Doctorate, University of New Mexico; Bachelor of Science in political science with a minor in business, Emporia State University, Kansas; associate degree in liberal arts with business emphasis, Haskell Indian Junior College.

AFFILIATIONS: Member of the Hydaburg Cooperative Association (HCA or Tribe); New Mexico Bar Association; Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals for T&H. She is Haida, Yahkw ‘Laanas Clan, a Raven, Two Finned Killer Whale, from the K’aad Naay (Shark House) and a child of a Tsimshian Eagle and a Tlingit from Metlakatla, Alaska. Her Haida name is Ka’illjuus.