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Barrett works as a lawyer and planner with Alaska Native Villages and other entities to support climate change adaptation (including relocation), increased jurisdiction, natural resource protection, and the appropriate use of indigenous knowledge. She also serves as counsel to Gazewood and Weiner, P.C., and as a mediator for the Alaska Superior Court in Fairbanks. She completed a Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii-Manoa on how Alaska Native Villages are adapting to climate change and how laws and planning help or hinder. Originally from Cajun Country, Louisiana, USA, she has gained perspective from living and working in the Northern Mariana Islands,...