Rep. Mary Sattler Peltola was born in Alaska and raised on the Kuskokwim River in Kwethluk, Tuntutuliak, Platinum, and Bethel. She was just six years old when she began fishing commercially with her father. At age 24 years old she won her first state election and represented the Bethel region in the Alaska State Legislature.

During her ten years in office she built consensus around budgets that improved lives in rural Alaska. Since then she has worked as Manager of Community Development and Sustainability for the Donlin gold mine project.

More recently, she was Executive Director of the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. She helped mobilize 118 Tribes and rural Alaskans to advocate for the protection of salmon runs in Western Alaska.

In less than two years Mary overcome the partisan gridlock to: reamplify Alaska’s voice in DC, work with Alaska’s bipartisan delegation to bring home projects to preserve the Permanent Fund, ban predatory industrial and foreign trawlers, bring home $46 million in funding to secure our Alaska border, and give servicemembers the largest pay raise in over a decade while protecting the reproductive rights of servicemembers and their families.

Mary also pushed President Biden to approve the Willow Project, secured the largest investments in a renewable energy grid in U.S. history, which will power 75% of Alaskans with 85% renewable energy by 2035, introduced Landless Legislation to end 50 years of unfulfilled promises to Alaska Native communities, connected communities with over a billion dollars in infrastructure investment, established the Office of Food Security fight food insecurity amongst veterans in Alaska and nationwide, and created high-paying union jobs for Alaska’s working families, and so much more.