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…
If 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…
A 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…
Upon 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…
When 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…