Marlene Minnette is an enrolled Cup’ig (Joop’igh) Tribal member with the Native Village of Mekoryuk. Her Cup’ig name is Irneraucin (Irr-nerr-ow-chin). Prior to joining AKNWRC as a Program Specialist, Marlene provided healthy relationships and victim advocacy programming throughout the Aleutian region. She also has extensive experience providing culturally specific training and technical assistance to Tribal victim services programs in Alaska and throughout the Lower 48. She previously served as a Village Police Officer where she worked with victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in the criminal justice process. Marlene’s expertise in developing Alaska-based, culturally specific community needs assessments, strategic plans, logic models, policies and procedures, program partnerships, outreach and awareness campaigns, and other Tribal victim services programmatic elements, as well as her strong technical background in data compilation, analysis, and reporting, are a tremendous asset to the work of AKNWRC. Marlene is mother to 1 child, Angagar (Aang-aw-gharr) and wife to Lurtussikar (Lurr-too-see-kargh). She was born in Anchorage ‚but raised in the Cup’ig community of Mekoryuk and now lives on the lands of the Dena’ina people. Marlene is currently attending the National Tribal Trial College but still makes time to engage in traditional subsistence and art, skills she is passing down to her daughter.