Debbie Atuk
Chair Bering Straits Native Corporation Government Services LLC Inupiaq, Kingikmiut
Brooklyn, New York
Debbie Atuk (Inupiaq, Kingikmiut) is chair of Bering Straits Native Corporation Government Services LLC. She served as a portfolio advisor to Skyview Investment Advisors, president and CEO of the Kootznoowoo Corporation, treasurer of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and business director of the Colville Tribal Federal Corporation.
Atuk created Alaska Native Economic Development Conversations—a series to encourage rural communities in the Norton Sound region to participate in the global economy. Through weekly interviews with entrepreneurs, developers, and leaders, she highlighted the opportunities presented by the steady increase in maritime traffic through the Bering Strait.
A shareholder and board treasurer (2019–2024) of the Bering Straits Native Corporation, Atuk navigated distribution of $15 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to shareholders impacted by COVID-19.
Raised in Nome and Anchorage, Alaska, Atuk earned a B.A. in economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.