• Age on Oct. 1, 2024

    43

  • Family (immediate/those you live with)

    Nanibah Frommherz and Shandiin Frommherz
  • Occupation

    Outreach & Development Program Manager, SEARHC–help develop grow-your-own career opportunities for SE AK residents, promote and recruit as well.
  • Previous government experience or community involvement

    I bring a diverse experience obtained from life and professional realms. In short, my life experience allows me to share the experience of a border town school experience where I attended school with students from in-town and students who rode the bus into town from the neighboring Navajo Nation. I am a first-generation college graduate and was only able to do so by enlisting in the US Navy. I am a mom of three JSD students (daughters) who have grown to love Juneau since our orders here ten years ago. Most relevant, I am currently on the school board wrapping up the first three-year term. I believe experience provided an in-depth knowledge of the district’s financial condition funding streams. While on the Board, I chaired the Program Evaluation Committee and participated in the Policy Committee. These committees enabled me to get an understanding of the momentum that started with the new superintendent and cabinet members. I believe that I bring a different perspective and have grown into speaking up and sharing the different perspective. Additionally, I bring my professional experience from early education as a Head Start Director with Central Council of Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska (Tlingit & Haida) to Outreach and Development Program Manager with Southeast Alaska Regional Healthcare Consortium (SEARHC). In between both jobs, I worked as the Tribal Outreach Director with Tlingit and Haida Regional Housing Authority (THRHA) and Indigenizing Education Alaska (IEA) Program Manager with Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI). During these years, specialized in developing relationships with SE Tribes, assisting schools with the teacher shortage across Alaska, and, now, developing job shadowing experiences for high school students at SEARHC. All of these experiences helped me learn and appreciate the different experiences of all sectors of our community, region, and statewide. I believe this knowledge and appreciation can help JSD extend partnerships and/or advocacy partnerships to address education funding challenges.
  • Highest level of education

    Masters of Arts in Educational Studies from Tufts University (2014).
  • Did you attend public school?

    Yes

  • Briefly, what do you think is the most important part of K-12 education?

    The most important part of the K-12 PUBLIC education is the possibility of economic upward mobility; in the best scenario, a K-12 education can level the playing field for students not born into wealth.