Christina Carpenter is the Director of the Division of Environmental Health for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. She provides strategic direction and leadership across multiple programs that comprise the Division, including food safety and sanitation, drinking water, solid waste, hazardous waste, pesticides, the Office of the State Veterinarian, and Alaska's Environmental Health Laboratory. The close relationship of these diverse programs demonstrates implementation of the “One Health” model in Alaska, a worldwide strategy which recognizes that human, animal and environmental health are intricately related and seeks to expand interdisciplinary collaborations and communications across these disciplines.

Tommy is a fisheries expert, researcher and educator based out of Cordova, Alaska. He has lived, worked, studied and taught in and from Alaska for the past two decades, with a focus on commercial fishery management and salmon hatchery operations. He is an active public servant for several local, statewide and international bodies, and was appointed as a United States Representative to the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission in 2020. He continues to serve the commission as Alaska’s commissioner.

Rachel represents the State of Alaska’s interests in federal fisheries management issues, including participation on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council on behalf of the Commissioner.

Rachel has more than 15 years of experience working to develop and implement fisheries policy and management programs for commercial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries of Alaska.

Prior to joining the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in early 2019, Rachel worked for the National Marine Fisheries Service in Juneau as an analyst and regulatory specialist for Alaska’s federal halibut, groundfish and crab fisheries.

Rachel began her fisheries career as an economist with the ADF&G and later worked as an analyst and fishery manager for the New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries and for the National Marine Fisheries Service headquarters office in the Washington, DC area.

Lisa Weddig is a highly experienced professional with 35.9 years of work experience in the food industry. She has a strong background in food processing, food safety, and HACCP. Currently, she serves as the Vice President of Regulatory and Technical Affairs at the National Fisheries Institute in Herndon, Virginia. Lisa has held various leadership positions at the institute, including Chief Food Safety Officer and Director of Regulatory and Technical Affairs.

John earned his Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of New Orleans in 1976. He is a Career Analytical Chemist with 45 years experience in the analysis of a broad variety of food, agricultural commodities and byproducts, feed ingredients, fats and oils including olive oil, minerals, soil, water, and marine tissue samples His responsibilities have included laboratory operations, cost control, laboratory design and construction, quality assurance planning, LEAN process design, and the management of various analytical projects.

Noëlle is the Senior Manager of Fishing Innovation and Sustainability for Trident Seafoods. Prior to this, she led the Conservation Engineering group at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (NOAA Fisheries). In both capacities, her focus is on collaborative research with fishing industry, technology, and research partners to find innovative ways to evaluate and mitigate incidental impacts of fishing and to promote sustainable practices; this is done through field and laboratory research, and the development of new technology and innovative applications of existing technology.

Elli passed a journeyman’s exam in metal turning in 1997. He holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering and an executive MBA from Reykjavik University.

He has worked on mechanical design as well as project and engineering management in the blue economy field. Notably, he had a leading role in design and project management of an ambitious innovation project in the fish meal sector for more than 10 years. He has also worked closely with ship designers and shipyards in Europe, U.S. and Latin America on new installations and retrofits. In addition, he worked for first-to-market innovative chemical products in Iceland.

Elli’s current work involves collaboration between Alaska and Iceland in energy and the blue economy. He is passionate about challenging norms to develop and explore strategic and visionary decisions from the mindset of creating value.