Sharon McConnell Vice President Communications Sharon McConnell serves as the vice president of communications for Doyon in which she is responsible for corporate communications and marketing. Prior to joining Doyon, Limited in October 2008, Ms. McConnell served as the Doyon Foundation Executive Director for seven years. Since 1977, McConnell has dedicated her professional life to working on media programs for and about Alaska Native people. She has worked as reporter, producer or anchor for various statewide media outlets including the now defunct Tundra Times, KIAK Radio in Fairbanks, and KIMO Television in Anchorage. From 1994 to 2002, McConnell was co-owner of Blueberry Productions; one of the few Native owned multi-media production companies in Alaska. Her television work has been shown nationally and in the mid-1990’s she hosted a live national radio talk show from Alaska; the "Wellness Edition" of Native America Calling". Since 1991, she has anchored the annual statewide television broadcast coverage of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention. She is the current Vice-President of Evansville Incorporated, her village corporation and is a former elected official serving on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Board of Education from 2005 to 2008. McConnell is Inupiaq from the village of Evansville in the Brooks Range. McConnell has four children and three grandchildren. Back

Sharon McConnell

Vice President
Communications

Sharon McConnell serves as the vice president of communications for Doyon in which she is responsible for corporate communications and marketing.

Prior to joining Doyon, Limited in October 2008, Ms. McConnell served as the Doyon Foundation Executive Director for seven years.

Since 1977, McConnell has dedicated her professional life to working on media programs for and about Alaska Native people. She has worked as reporter, producer or anchor for various statewide media outlets including the now defunct Tundra Times, KIAK Radio in Fairbanks, and KIMO Television in Anchorage. From 1994 to 2002, McConnell was co-owner of Blueberry Productions; one of the few Native owned multi-media production companies in Alaska. Her television work has been shown nationally and in the mid-1990’s she hosted a live national radio talk show from Alaska; the "Wellness Edition" of Native America Calling". Since 1991, she has anchored the annual statewide television broadcast coverage of the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention.

She is the current Vice-President of Evansville Incorporated, her village corporation and is a former elected official serving on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Board of Education from 2005 to 2008.

McConnell is Inupiaq from the village of Evansville in the Brooks Range. McConnell has four children and three grandchildren.

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