Caroline Brown, Alaska Department of Fish & Game
Brooke McDavid, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Caroline Brown is the Statewide Research Director for the Division of Subsistence at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. During her 20 years with the division, she spent 15 as the lead Subsistence Resource Specialist for Interior Alaska and three years as the Northern Region Program Manager before taking on her current role. She serves as the alternate U.S. Co-chair of the Yukon River Salmon Panel. Ms. Brown has worked on several traditional knowledge projects along the Yukon River, focusing on the subsistence and use of nonsalmon fish species and the investigating the socioeconomic effects of the 2009 salmon disaster on the Yukon River that paid special attention to the role of an exchange continuum (sharing, barter, and customary trade) in Yukon River villages. Ms. Brown completed an M.A. and her PhD candidacy in Anthropology from the University of Chicago.
Brooke McDavid worked for the Alaska Department of Fish & Game Division of Subsistence from 2015-2022 as Subsistence Resource Specialist for the Yukon River region where she was a critical team member for several projects examining exchange practice of subsistence resource, including customary trade and social networks of salmon distribution. She also co-authored several technical papers addressing aspects of Yukon River fisheries, including Local traditional knowledge of the freshwater life stages of Yukon River Chinook and chum salmon in Anvik, Huslia, Allakaket, and Fort Yukon and The harvest and use of wild foods by four communities bordering the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve: Central, Circle, Eagle, and Eagle Village, 2016 and 2017. Ms. McDavid received an M.S. in Natural Resources Management from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2015. She participated in the Peace Corps Masters International Program and served three years as a volunteer in the Fiji Islands where she worked with rural, Indigenous communities on resource management and sustainable development planning.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
