Lincoln A. Bean, Sr. serves as an advocate for issues such as funding, legislation, and regulatory issues, all of which are of great importance to the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consoritum (ANTHC), the Alaska tribal health system, and the Indian Health Service. The Alaska Tribal Caucus has appointed Mr. Bean to serve as the Alaska Area Representative on national Facilities Appropriations Advisory Board and national Tribal Leaders Diabetes Committee. Mr. Bean also serves as a director for the SouthEast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, and Vice-Chair of the Alaska Native Health Board.

Bean is an enrolled member of the Organized Village of Kake and a shareholder of Kake Tribal Corporation and Sealaska Corporation. Bean has spent much of his life subsisting off the land and sea and has worked in logging and construction in the village.