Linda Curda inducted into Alaska hall of fame

Oct. 11, 2021

Associate Professor Linda Curda will be inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame during a virtual ceremony on Oct. 19.  

Curda joined the Kuskokwim Campus, then known as Kuskokwim Community College, in 1980 as an instructor for the community health aide/practitioner training program. She has since held many positions at the university, most recently KUC’s acting director from October 2018 to June 2021 during the illness and subsequent death of Director Mary Pete, herself a 2019 AWHF inductee. 

Currently Curda is working to transition the CHAP program from UAF to Alaska Pacific University. Her list of achievements and accomplishments includes being project leader and managing editor for the comprehensive CHAP manual used by health aides in rural Alaska. In 2013, she volunteered as a visiting professor and health provider for the South Sudan Medical Project in Old Fangak, South Sudan. She has been an organizer and volunteer for the Cama-i Dance Festival since 1990, an event held annually in Bethel except during COVID-19, and she has helped turn Cama-i into one of the premier dance events in Alaska. 

Curda spends her free time with family and friends in Bethel and Anchorage, fishing, boating, berry picking and gardening.