Background
MacLean, Edna Ahgeak was born on November 5, 1944 in Barrow, Alaska, United States. Daughter of Joseph A. and Maria (Brower) Ahgeak.
MacLean, Edna Ahgeak was born on November 5, 1944 in Barrow, Alaska, United States. Daughter of Joseph A. and Maria (Brower) Ahgeak.
Bachelor, Colorado Women's College, 1967. Certified in teaching, University California, Berkeley, 1969. Master of Education, University Washington, 1991.
Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1995.
Research assistant, Naval Arctic Research Laboratory, Barrow, Alaska., summer 1971;
Inupiaq language specialist, U. Alaska, Fairbanks, 1973-1975;
assistant professor Inupiaq-Eskimo, U. Alaska, Fairbanks, 1976-1987;
Alaska Native education coordinator, Alaska Department Education, Juneau, 1987-1990;
Inupiaq curriculum developer, North Slope Borough School District, Barrow, 1992;
president, Ilisagvik College, since 1995. Member steering committee International Cross-Cultural Education Seminar Series in the Circumpolar North, since 1983. Member Inuit Circumpolar Conference Committee on Education, 1978-1983.
Member commission on arctic social science, Polar Research Board, National Research Council, 1987-1991. Vice president for Alaska Inuit Circumpolar Executive Council, 1989-1992.
Member, president North Slope Borough Commission on History, Language, and Culture, Barrow, 1973-1983. Fellow Arctic Institute North America.
Married Stephen F. MacLean, July 11, 1967 (divorced June 1992). Children: Stephen, Andrew.