Virginia Wolf is an original CIRI enrollee raised in Kenai, Alaska. She is the daughter of Nancy Danieloff and Thomas Stroman and has four brothers, a half-sister and a half-brother. She has two children, Brenda Marie Smith and Anthony Lee Wolf, and four grandchildren, Ethan and Averie Wolf and Brianna and Daniel Blankenship. Virginia loves to bead earrings, sew, fish, and can, freeze and dry food for long-term storage. She loves learning crafts of all kinds. During the COVID pandemic, Virginia sewed and distributed more than 800 cotton face masks to Tribal and community members as well as Elders’ centers, fire and police departments and anyone who needed them. She attended Kenai Central High School and Kenai Peninsula Community College and worked as title officer for 30-plus years. Virginia has commercial fished in Cook Inlet, Unalakleet and Egegik, Alaska, and on the Willapa River in Washington State. She was a Tribal court judge and a council member for the Kenaitze Indian Tribe.
