Evelynn M. Trefon

Traveled to Juneau with the Alaska Food Policy Council for statewide Food Security Week and spoke in legislative offices about the impact of Alaska Farmers Market Association food-access support on Newhalen and Iliamna schoolchildren after the Lake and Peninsula School District left the National School Lunch Program.

March 4, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: akfoodpolicycouncil.org

Wrote to Alaska Senate Finance co-chair Pete Kelly as vice mayor of the Newhalen City Council and a director of the Iliamna-Newhalen-Nondalton Electric Cooperative, opposing the HB 249 aviation, jet and gasoline fuel tax increases as a disproportionate burden on rural Alaska. The February 29, 2016 letter said Newhalen's Community Revenue Sharing was being cut by $34,085, roughly a third of the city's yearly budget, and that the program supplies nearly 90 percent of that budget. She also defended Power Cost Equalization for rural electricity and well-funded K-12 schools, and said a state income tax should fall only on people earning more than $150,000.

February 29, 2016Supports Social Programs and Welfare

Source: akleg.gov

As a member of the Newhalen Local School Advisory Committee, contacted state officials and departments about the Lake and Peninsula School District's decision to end its school breakfast and lunch program in January, telling KDLG that for many students those meals were the one guaranteed nutritious meal of the day in a region with widespread food insecurity.

October 28, 2024Supports Public Education Quality

Source: kdlg.org

Held a seat on the governing board of directors of the Alaska Farmers Market Association, the statewide nonprofit that runs SNAP matching, WIC and Local Food Purchase Agreement programs at Alaska markets, bringing rural Southwest Alaska produce experience to that board as the operator of E&A Produce Market in Iliamna.

July 31, 2026

Source: alaskafarmersmarkets.org

Reported in her state financial disclosure that she worked full time as the Newhalen School secretary for the Lake and Peninsula School District. She also worked part time as Newhalen community coordinator and ran the seasonal E&A Produce Market. She served as a director of the Alaska Farmers Market Association and held a partner interest in Alaska Resilience Farms.

April 26, 2026

Source: aws.state.ak.us

Served on the Newhalen City Council and on the board of the Iliamna-Newhalen-Nondalton Electric Cooperative while working as secretary at the Newhalen school, and guided Alaska Public Media reporting on how the proposed Pebble Mine bore on local employment in Newhalen and Iliamna.

November 13, 2017

Source: alaskapublic.org