My name is Tristan Guevin, and my adopted Lingít name is Hint'eich (Dak'laweidí). I am the oldest son of Tony Guevin and Cindy Litman, a middle school PE teacher and poet from Springfield, Massachusetts, and an educational researcher and activist from East Los Angeles, respectively. I am married to Lauren Havens, and we have a two-year-old son, Arlo, who is a future student in the Sitka School District.

I moved to Sitka in 2008 after spending my early career working in the fields of education and youth development, and subsequently attending graduate school to study development economics and education policy. My first job in Sitka was as a tutor for the Sitka Native Education Program (SNEP) where I provided individual and small group academic support and enrichment classes at Pacific High School and Sitka High School. After working as a SNEP tutor for the second half of the 2008 - 2009 school year, I got a job managing a Lingít language revitalization project for SNEP and Sitka Tribe of Alaska (STA). Since then, I have worked in numerous senior and executive management positions for STA, including as Deputy General Manager, Senior Director of Organizational Development, Tribal Planner, and Director of STA's Cultural Resources, Education and Employment Department.

In addition to my work at STA, I currently serve as the vice-chair of the City and Borough of Sitka Health Needs and Human Services Commission, the chair of the UAS Sitka Campus Advisory Council, a member of the UAS Alaska Native Student Success Committee, and a long-standing member of Sitkans Against Family Violence's Pathways Coalition. Previously, I served a three-year term on the City and Borough of Sitka Assembly (2014 - 2017); designed and managed a teacher training program for the Sitka Fine Arts Camp (2014 - 2016); and have served on multiple nonprofit boards, as well as local and statewide committees and working groups related to PK - postsecondary education, Alaska Native language revitalization, domestic violence and sexual assault prevention, and early childhood education.

Prior to coming to Sitka, I served as a youth development volunteer in the US Peace Corps in Eastern Ukraine from 2005 - 2007; worked domestically and internationally as an arts educator from 2003 - 2008 and worked for several years as a line cook at a French Bistro in Davis, California where I grew up. I hold a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies where I was selected by faculty as the 2018 Development Practice and Policy Monitoring, Evaluation and Design Fellow, and I hold a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of Southern California where I graduated cum laude in 2001.