Larissa Sommer is the Navigator for Cook Inlet, Chugach, and Kodiak Island regions. She and her husband live in Fairbanks where they are raising their two children. Larissa grew up in Galena.
Larissa holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a master’s from Northern Arizona University. She spent two years on Capitol Hill in between undergraduate and graduate school, where she worked as a Staff Assistant on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on the Interior during U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens’ chairmanship of the full committee. Larissa is enrolled to Louden Tribal Council (Galena), and is a shareholder of Doyon, Ltd., Gana-A‘Yoo, Ltd. (Galena), and Tozitna, Ltd. (Tanana). She is a former Director of the Gana-A‘Yoo Foundation.
As a graduate of Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Larissa has friends in each of the regions she covers as a Navigator.