Beverly Patkotak Grinage is an American academic administrator and community organizer. She was president of

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from 2005 to 2010. Grinage is a former executive director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission and she was a public information officer for the

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. Grinage has worked as campaign manager and previously was the owner of a of a publishing business. She was the managing editor of the '' Tundra Times'' and a member of the Alaska State Council on the Arts.

Career and education

Grinage was the managing editor of the '' Tundra Times''. In 1988, she was serving as a public information officer for the

. In 1989, Grinage worked as a public information specialist, owned a publishing business in

Utqiagvik, Alaska Utqiagvik ( ik, Utqiaġvik; , , formerly known as Barrow ()) is the borough seat and largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located north of the Arctic Circle, it is one of the northernmost cities and towns in the ...

, and was appointed by Alaska Governor

Steve Cowper Stephen Cambreleng Cowper (born August 21, 1938) is an American Democratic politician who was the sixth governor of Alaska from 1986–90. He was governor during the 1989 ''Exxon Valdez'' oil spill. Cowper is the CEO of Steve Cowper & Associa ...

to the Alaska State Council on the Arts in 1989 where she continued through 1991. In 1990, she was the campaign manager for

Edward Itta Edward Saggan Itta (July 5, 1945 – November 6, 2016) was an American Iñupiat politician, activist and whaling captain. Itta served as the Mayor of North Slope Borough, Alaska, the northernmost borough in the United States, for two consecutive t ...

, a candidate for mayor of

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. She was serving as the executive director of the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission in 1991. In 2004, Grinage was a community organizer in Barrow. She is a shareholder of the

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, or ASRC, is one of 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations created under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA) in settlement of aboriginal land claims. ASRC was incorporated in Alaska on June 22, ...

(ASRC) and was a critic of the ASRC management. She organized the group, Shareholders First, to collect signatures at a shareholder meeting due to diminishing dividends. She stated her aim was to help the corporation and the board of directors which will benefit all parties. Grinage succeeded

Edna Ahgeak MacLean Edna Ahgeak MacLean or Paniattaaq (born November 5, 1944) is an Iñupiaq academic administrator, linguist, anthropologist and educator from Alaska, who has specialized in the preservation and revitalization of the Iñupiaq language. Early life a ...

as president of

in 2005. She was succeeded by Brooke Gondara in 2010. Grinage completed a M.A. at

University of Alaska Fairbanks The University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF or Alaska) is a public land-grant research university in College, Alaska, a suburb of Fairbanks. It is the flagship campus of the University of Alaska system. UAF was established in 1917 and opened for cla ...

in 2008. Her thesis was titled ''Inupiat self-determination through higher education''.

Personal life

Grinage is married to Kent Grinage. They have a daughter. She advocates for the use of the Inupiaq language among youth.

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Career and education

Personal life

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