Paul Bodfish Sr. serves as vice chairman on Arctic Slope Regional Corporation’s board of directors, holding the director seat for Atqasuk. Atqasuk is located within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A), southwest of Utqiaġvik on the Meade River.
Paul is a tribal citizen of the Native Village of Atqasuk and the Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope as well as a shareholder of ASRC and Ukpeaġvik Iñupiat Corporation, the Alaska Native village corporation for Utqiaġvik. His Iñupiaq name is Eluktun.
Paul sits on the North Slope Borough Planning Commission and serves as a pastor at the Atqasuk Chapel.
He previously served on the Federal Regional Advisory Council and the NPR-A Working Group, liaising with the Bureau of Land Management about community priorities related to the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Paul has experience working in search and rescue and as a heavy equipment operator for the North Slope Borough Public Works Department.
In his free time, Paul loves to participate in community activities, especially during the holidays, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and Fourth of July festivities. Paul annually donates fish, caribou and other traditional foods to these events. Paul is an active member of his church and enjoys church-centered activities with the congregation. Paul and his wife, Mary Kay, enjoy camping with their family.