Speakers

Patricia Cochran serves as executive director of the Alaska Native Science Commission, an organization that brings together research and science in partnership with Alaska Native communities.  She also serves as chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change.  She is the immediate past chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, an international organization representing Inuit of Alaska, Canada, Russian and Greenland, and former chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat to the eight-nation Arctic Council.  She has served as principal and co-principal investigator on numerous research projects throughout the Arctic, including the Survey of Living Conditions, Traditional Knowledge and Contaminants Project, Indigenous Knowledge Systems Colloquium and Bering Sea Sub Network.