“That was the most wonderful thing that I could’ve ever had sent to me in my life,” she said. It said: Congratulations, we’re going to pay back some of your student loans. Those who heed the call can apply for a chance to get help in paying their student loans back - but there’s no guarantee.Ībout five months after Wilson got to Kotzebue, she got the letter she’d been hoping for. Public Health Service, which brings medical providers to high-need areas in the country. This is the first photo Lori Wilson took as a clinical dentist in Alaska, where she went in hopes of getting some help with loan repayment. “That meant if you went there, it was more than likely that you would receive loan repayment.” 1 on the loan repayment lists,” she said. And she picked Kotzebue, Alaska, for a very specific reason. When she graduated from dental school in 1995, she owed about $300,000. Wilson had to go that far to stay ahead of her student debt. Or sometimes, she’d fly on a bush plane, then go by dog sled, to treat people in remote villages. Some patients drove hours on a snowmobile or RV to see her. “Almost six months out of the year, you’re in nothing but complete darkness.” “When I got there, I was just like, ‘Oh, my God!’ I didn’t see any other Black people. For Wilson, who is from Florida, it was a big leap from her comfort zone. Temperatures of minus 80 degrees are normal. It’s surrounded by water on all sides, or ice in the winter. Kotzebue, Alaska, is on a tundra 30 miles above the Arctic Circle. And that was that, ‘She’s not going to last two months.’” “The staff in the clinic, they had this bet. “I had on these boots, and these boots had heels,” said Wilson, a general dentist. Lori Wilson showed up for her first day of work at a dental clinic in Kotzebue, Alaska, wearing some questionable footwear.
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