WACDA Board of Directors
Simon Kinneen, NSEDC, Chair
Robin Samuelsen, BBEDC, Vice-Chair
Ragnar Alstrom, YDFDA, Secretary/Treasurer
Angel Drobnica, APICDA, Director
Angela Pinsonneault, CVRF, Director
Phillip Lestenkof, CBSFA, Director
The community of Gambell continues to have a largely subsistence-based economy. Official unemployment rates in Western Alaska range as high as 20 percent, but functional unemployment is often three to four times higher.