Co-Director
Alaska Native Birthwokers Community, AK
Abra Nungasuk Patkotak is Iñupiaq from Utqiagvik, Alaska. She has held many roles, including managing the Pre-maternal home for Utqiagvik and the surrounding North Slope of Alaska communities. She has also worked as a 911 dispatcher in the Arctic. Abra currently resides in Dgheyey Kaq’, also known as Anchorage, on Dena’ina land. She is an Indigenous Full-Spectrum Birthworker, Doula, and Co-Creator and Co-Director of the Alaska Native Birthworkers Community, a role through which she advances reproductive justice while serving Indigenous birthing people. In 2010, Abra was trained as a doula, and in 2023, she received her Bachelor of Social Work degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage. Abra is a 2023 Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Healing & Leadership Fellow. She serves as a Committee Member with the State of Alaska Maternal Child Death Review. In this role, she brings knowledge of Alaska Native culture as well as lived experience with rural healthcare and rural emergency response systems. She participated in the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs Healthy Beginnings Learning and Practice Cohort to advance anti-racism in perinatal health. In all that she does, Abra's overarching goal is to create safer spaces for pregnant and parenting people, whether through systems and policy change or direct support.
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Sunday, April 14, 2024
11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PT