Deena Paramo appointed to Powers' regent seat

September 9, 2015

Carla Browning

Gov. Bill Walker announced today that Deena Paramo will join the University of Alaska Board of Regents. Paramo will fill the seat vacated by Mike Powers, who resigned to become UAF's interim chancellor.

Paramo is superintendent of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage, an elementary school principal and a teacher in Glennallen and the Mat-Su area.

She holds a bachelor's of science from Texas State University, a master’s in education from UAA, and and doctorate in education from the University of Oregon.