Regional Health

Grantee Stories

Alaska’s first MacArthur Genius

If you saw her making a speech at a Native elders potlatch, or arm wrestling some politician for program money, you might figure out Katherine Gottlieb is the CEO of a $100 million health corporation.

But you probably wouldn’t realize right away that she’s responsible for fixing EVERYTHING.

Grantee Stories

It’s really just “The Clinic”

Its official title is “Sunshine Community Health
Center” but it’s really just The Clinic.

It has been around since I was in elementary school. 25
years.

Back then, medical care meant either a drive to
Anchorage or a call to the paramedics.