Posted by Erin McKinstry, KCAW | Feb 9, 2021
Debbie Atuk was hired in January and officially took over as President and CEO of Kootznoowoo, Incorporated on Feb. 1. (Photo provided by Kootznoowoo, Inc.)
Angoon’s Native corporation has a new leader. Debbie Atuk took over as the President and CEO of Kootznoowoo Incorporated in February after a career in corporate finance and business.
Even back when Debbie Atuk was an undergraduate student studying economics at the University of Chicago, she was thinking about Alaska Native corporations.
“I wrote a lot of essays, a lot of scholarship application essays, and I talked about the Native corporations and how I wanted to come back and apply my experience earning a degree in economics,” she said.