Barbara Blake

This summer, Barbara Blake interned at Sealaska’s accounting office. As a result of the internship, she has not only expanded her knowledge of the business field, she gained a greater understanding of her regional Corporation.

Some of the projects she has been working on involve accounts payable, accounts receivable, Section 7(i), 7(j) records retention and the general ledger. “I regularly carry out numerous duties related to the accounting field. I am really enjoying this opportunity. I was blessed to be around great mentors in the department I was placed. My co-workers are wonderful to work with and I am able to learn new information on a daily basis,” she explained.

Blake has spent most of her life in Anchorage, Klawock and Ketchikan, and is proud to be Tlingit, Haida and Athabascan. She is also very proud of her lineage as the daughter of Kenneth Johnson and Sandra Demmert, granddaughter of Franklin and Frances Demmert, and Irene Johnson, and great-granddaughter of the late Dr. Robert Cogo and Nora Cogo, who is the daughter of world-renowned Haida artist Charles Edenshaw.

“I try to center my life on my family and my culture. I find that by doing this I am constantly pushed to achieve my absolute best in anything I strive for. I have a beautiful baby boy that is an important factor in who I am. I find it very refreshing to work in an environment both conducive to my life as a tribal/family member as well as the structure needed to achieve greatness in the Western world today.”

Blake is halfway through her junior year at the University of Alaska-Southeast Juneau campus. She is pursuing a Bachelor of Business Administration with an emphasis in management. After she receives her degree, she plans to work at an Alaska Native enterprise and apply the knowledge she has learned thus far toward the expansion and improvement of her work facility.

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