SEARCH Highlights
Some years ago, Cyrus Harris, a hunter in Kotzebue, Alaska, realized Elders living in care facilities suffered without access to their traditional foods. Cyrus then collaborated with other co-workers from Maniilaq, government food safety regulators, and food scientists to safely supply traditional foods to Indigenous elders in government-regulated care facilities. With Cyrus and so many…
Read moreIf we were to add up the collective years of the recently formed SEARCH Advisory Committee, we’d get pretty close to half a millennium. Between October 2022 and March 2023, we invited and welcomed to our Advisory Committee nine leaders in Arctic Indigenous knowledge, science, politics, economics, and business: Honorable Aleqa Hammond; Gail Schubert; Lisa…
Read moreA Friday evening phone call between Executive Director Athena Copenhaver and team member from Savoonga Bryan Rookok, Jr. turned into an hour-long discussion of hunting, weather, family, and food. Never far from the edges of these topics lingers the specter of a changing Arctic environment and how these shifts in the living world impact people.…
Read moreUpon receiving funding for a fresh phase of SEARCH centering the practice of co-production in 2021, we set out to understand the greater landscape of co-production in the Arctic. This exploration has taken the shape of a review paper authored by several SEARCH contributors, and now, we are preparing to submit this review for peer-reviewed…
Read moreWhen Alex Shahbazi graduated from Middlebury Institute of International Studies with his master’s degree in International Environmental Policy in May 2023, he had already spent over 18 months as a research assistant with SEARCH. During that time, Alex conceived of and co-produced six episodes of the SEARCH podcast Out of the Arctic and played an…
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