Rena Gopez is the Haines Borough School District's newest high school science teacher, shown here cleaning test tube holders on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Rena Gopez is the Haines Borough School District’s newest high school science teacher, shown here cleaning test tube holders on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Of all of the new educators in the Haines Borough School District, Rina Gopez probably traveled the farthest. And, it may have taken her the longest to make her way to Haines. 

Gopez, her husband Francis, and 2-year-old daughter Francesca made their way to…

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...