"Jody Potts-Joseph wants to encourage young Alaska Natives to travel the way of the ancestors"
"It’s 60-below-zero on Feb. 11 in Eagle Village, Alaska, and Jody Potts-Joseph is sewing a pair of mukluks for Jessie Holmes, a good friend and co-competitor in the 2026 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Later, she and her husband Jamey will care for the 29 dogs in their kennel. Then she’ll spend time on other business near and dear to her: the Hungwitchin Village Corporation, of which she is president, and Doyon Limited, a regional Alaska Native Corporation of which she is a director.
She might talk with the Alaska Wilderness League about the next steps in the fight to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and then check in with the program she founded to connect young Indigenous Alaskans to the land through snowboarding. Finally, she might call The North Face Explore Fund Council and the team working on the film she’s producing, “Beautiful Resistance.”
She doesn’t sleep much."
