Institute of Social and Economic Research



	Photographed from left to right are ISER interns, Maggie Grega, John Eric Humphries, Caroline Schultz, David Fisher, Alice Smith. Not pictured, Lilly Anne Andrews and Emilie Springer.


	Lilly Anne Andrews was born in Hooper Bay in southwest Alaska. She is a student at UAA, working toward a bachelor’s degree in social work. At ISER this summer she is helping with projects examining education and fishery issues. Her interests include skin-sewing, Cup’ik dancing, camping, and hiking on the tundra.

	Maggie Grega attends the University of Oregon in Eugene, where she is majoring in anthropology with a minor in French. She has called Anchorage home for the past nine years. This summer she is doing research for a variety of ISER projects.

	John Eric Humphries attends the University of Chicago, where he is majoring in economics and public policy. This summer he is an intern at the Center for Economic Development, which is part of ISER. He is developing a business plan for the Kachemak Shellfish Growers Cooperative. He has lived in Eagle River, Alaska for ten years and enjoys hiking, running, and playing the guitar.

	Caroline Schultz will graduate next May with a degree in economics from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. At ISER this summer she is helping with a project examining migration patterns among Alaskans and other Arctic peoples. She is from Chugiak, Alaska and enjoys hiking and playing softball.

	David Fisher will be a senior this fall at Chapman University in Orange, California, majoring in economics and political science. At ISER he is helping analyze the regional economic effects of the Red Dog Mine in northwest Alaska. His interests include politics and theology, as well as dancing and hiking.

	Alice Smith is a lifelong resident of Scammon Bay in southwest Alaska . She will graduate from UAA with a B.A. in psychology next May. At ISER this summer she is helping with an evaluation of personal care and behavioral health programs of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. Her hobbies include reading, playing basketball, camping, and beading.

	Emilie Springer is a graduate student in the School of Marine Affairs at the University of Washington . This summer she is helping UAA anthropologists Marie Lowe and Steve Langdon study the social effects of rationalization in Gulf of Alaska fisheries. In her time off she travels to Homer, on Kachemak Bay , where her husband has a salmon boat.