Ericka Jensen is the Haines School District's newest middle school health, 6th grade social studies and 6th grade physical education teacher, shown here on September 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Ericka Jensen is the Haines School District’s newest middle school health, 6th grade social studies and 6th grade physical education teacher, shown here on September 21, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Ericka Jensen moved to Haines with her husband Brad Jensen and their 13-year-old son Milo in March. 

But she didn’t move here for the job, in fact neither of them did. She said they wanted to be in Haines. They moved…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...