Julie Kitka, president of the Alaska Federation of Natives, speaks with others before then-U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch arrives for a meeting with leaders representing Alaska Native groups in Anchorage on June 10, 2016, at a Cook Inlet Region Inc. conference room.
Alaska’s congressional delegation said Thursday that it has recommended Julie Kitka, longtime president of the state’s most prominent Alaska Native organization, to serve as the next federal co-chair of the Denali Commission.U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said in a statement from the delegation that she can’t think of anyone more qualified to push for economic development in rural Alaska.
The federally funded Denali Commission was created in 1998 by the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens and has survived efforts in D.C. to kill it. Budgetsunder former President Donald Trump sought to eliminate the agency, when a 2020 budget document cited Alaska’s Permanent Fund wealth as justification that the state didn’t need the federal support.Alex DeMarban is a longtime Alaska journalist who covers business, the oil and gas industries and general assignments. Reach him at 907-257-4317 or alex@adn.
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