07/08/2026
📣📣 We are pleased to announce our alumni speaker for the 44th annual RAHI graduation ceremony! We hope you will join us in person at the UAF Schaible Auditorium tomorrow at 1PM or virtually at https://www.facebook.com/uafrahi/ 🎓
Qalucak, or Ricky Lind, Jr. is a RAHI 2001 alumni. He recently left the elementary music classroom after teaching 16 years and now offers administrative abilities as a liaison between Southcentral Foundation staff, SCF Youth Programs, and the Anchorage community since May 2024.
After seeing four principals come and go within his first six years of teaching, Ricky went back to school and achieved the Principal Certification in 2015; his mentors urged him to obtain experience outside of Dillingham, and Anchorage School District hired him same-year. From teaching music for ASD to supervising SCF interns, Ricky has noticed that being from Dillingham has curated a connection to both his Yup'ik and Sugpiaq values; he enjoys sharing pieces of it with everyone he works with.
Ricky's interns are based at the Alaska Native Medical Center; when not at SCF, he can be found at a local Goodwill thrift store digging for “treasure,” in his garage upcycling found furniture while listening to EDM, or on the couch with his 18-year old Siamese cat, "Kitty," while enjoying a supernatural-related horror film (or playing Animal Crossing on Nintendo Switch).
