Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum Podcasts

Send us Fan Mail Andrew Gray was elected to the Alaska State House of Representatives in 2022 to represent the UMED District in Anchorage. He serves on the Judiciary, Ways & Means, and Military & Veterans Affairs committees. During his first session in Juneau, he brought forward legislation related to housing and homelessness and carried Senate Bill 119 in the House, which requires the Dep...

Send us Fan Mail Eric Stroshane has twenty years of experience working in public, special, and academic libraries. He currently provides the American Library Associations Office for Intellectual Freedom challenge support, database maintenance, and assistance with publications as part of their efforts to combat censorship and defend the freedom to read. He is the news editor for the Journal of Inte...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Jharrett Bryantt is the Superintendent of the Anchorage School District.  Prior to joining ASD in the summer of 2022, Dr. Bryantt was an executive officer at the Houston Independent School District, leading efforts to attract, retain, evaluate, and competitively compensate talent for the nation’s 7th largest school district. In 2019 Forbes Magazine’s named him as one of 30 edu...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Arleigh Reynolds is a veterinarian, professor of clinical nutrition, Senior Scientist and Director of the One Health Initiative at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Associate Dean of UAFs College of Natural Science and Mathematics, and a World Champion sled dog racer.  He has published prolifically and holds a doctor of veterinary medicine degree and a Ph. D. in veterinary m...

Send us Fan Mail Alyse Galvin represents House District 14—Spenard, Rogers Park, and Midtown—in the 33rd Alaska Legislature, where she serves on the House Finance Committee. Alyse was elected to the state House of Representatives as an independent . Also, she was an independent candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2018 and 2020, running with the endorsement of the Alaska Democratic P...

Send us Fan Mail Cathleen McLaughlin has worked in law and advocacy for 35 years. In 2014, she became the Director of the Partners Reentry Center, a community-based center that provided pre- and post-release reentry services to vulnerable individuals who would otherwise release from incarceration to homelessness. This experience inspired her to open Restorative and Reentry Services in 2016 to prov...

Send us Fan Mail Jared Huffman is a member of the United States Congress, representing California's 2nd Congressional District, which stretches from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. First elected in 2012, he serves on the Natural Resources and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committees. Jared founded the Congressional Freethought Caucus to promote sound public policy based o...

Send us Fan Mail Christina Eubanks is the Executive Director of Hillcrest Children's Center, a parent-owned nonprofit child-care center that has been an Anchorage institution since 1968. After earning her BA in Sociology, she moved to Alaska to work for Camp Fire USA AK Council as a Program Director for Program Quality.  Previously she was on the Parent Board and the Academic Policy Committee...

Send us Fan Mail Senator Löki Gale Tobin represents District J, including downtown Anchorage. She's also a Ph. D. candidate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks; her research topic is focused on culturally responsive education.  Born and raised in Nome, Lki is a University of Alaska Anchorage graduate with a Master's degree in rural development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Pe...

Send us Fan Mail Joclyn Reilly , LCSW, PMH-C , is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors for Postpartum Support International, Alaska Chapter (PSIAK). She also volunteers for PSI as a local coordinator. She has worked as a Family Support Counselor with Providence Alaska Childrens Hospital since 2012. She has been a social worker since 2001 and graduated from the University of Maryland, Baltimor...

Send us Fan Mail A Forum on the Forum.  This concerns everyone at AUUF, so check out the discussion. If you can't participate, let us know what you think. The Forum has been Zoom-only for over three years during the pandemic.  As many groups and activities return to in-person gatherings, what should we do with the Forum?  Stay on Zoom?  Meet in person?  A combination of both? If we return to...

Send us Fan Mail Erin Baldwin Day is an innovator and rabble-rouser living on Denaina lands in Midtown. She and her family embrace the practice of radical hospitality as the key to a more just and compassionate world, and believe that a bigger table is always preferable to a taller fence. She pastors progressive, inclusive communities of faith that may or may not look like church, and is convinced...

Send us Fan Mail Alex Johnson manages NPCA’s programs to protect and enhance the national parks and preserves in Alaska. He's is an outdoor and wilderness and is particularly fond of long-distance human-powered travel, e.g.,) skiing, canoeing, running, and backpacking. Alex is a Wyss Scholar, having earned his MS in environmental studies and Certificate in Natural Resources Conflict Resolutio...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Steven Haycox is a distinguished professor of history emeritus, a respected author of numerous books and essays, and a columnist for the Anchorage Daily News. In 2003, he was named the Alaska Historical Society's Historian of the Year and received the Alaska Governor's Humanities Award. Before his retirement, Prof. Haycox taught history for over 40 years at the Unive...

Send us Fan Mail ART DAVIDSON grew up in Colorado and lived his adult life in Alaska, where he helped create the state's first state park and has been engaged in major conservation and indigenous rights battles. From his climbing days, Art wrote "Minus 148: The First Winter Ascent of Mt. McKinley," considered a classic of mountaineering literature. He also authored "Endangered...

Send us Fan Mail Craig Campbell was appointed as the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Interim Manager in March 2022. He has a distinguished career in public service, previously serving as Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Adjutant General of the Alaska National Guard, President and CEO for Alaska Aerospace, and Board Chair for the Alaska Railroad. H...

Send us Fan Mail Neal Fried is an economist with the Alaska Department of Labor, where his primary duty is to produce economic data and analysis on a variety of economic issues facing the state. Neal is a primary author of articles appearing in the monthly magazine Alaska Economic Trends, published by the Department of Labor and distributed to over 5,000 subscribers. He has performed economic anal...

Send us Fan Mail Ed Mighell is an artist specializing in handmade ceramic tiles depicting Alaska animals and plants and images associated with his Alaska Native heritage. Eds mother is Inupiat from Point Hope. His father is from Massachusetts and was stationed in the Arctic with the Army Corps of Engineers where he met Eds mother. Ed has a degree in civil engineering and a fine arts degree in prin...

Send us Fan Mail Sierra Gregg is the Manager of Prevention and Education at STARStanding Together Against Rape and has extensive experience with creating and providing educational content to adults and youth across the state. She is a lifelong Alaskan and is driven by the need to make Alaska a safer place by helping to reduce the number of people that are harmed. She takes pride in being part of a...

Send us Fan Mail Chris Kolerok is the Director of Public Policy with Cook Inlet Housing Authority, the Tribally Designated Housing Entity for the Cook Inlet Region of Southcentral Alaska. Chris is Cup’ik, German, and Irish , and his grandparents are from Mekoryuk in Western Alaska. Chris was previously the President of Bering Straits Regional Housing Authority in Nome, and CEO of Togiak Natives, L...

Send us Fan Mail Zack Fields is entering his third term in the Alaska House of Representatives. His district includes Downtown, South Addition, Forest Park, Valley of the Moon/Northstar, Fairview, and Eastridge. Prior to working in the legislature, he was a Workforce Development Coordinator for the Alaska Department of Labor, a congressional and local government aide, and a freelance outdoor write...

Send us Fan Mail Shirley Mae Springer Staten is the executive director of Keys to Life, a nonprofit corporation dedicated to empowering, creating, and strengthening an inclusive community through rich arts and cross-cultural experiences.  She has worked as a VISTA volunteer, traveled to Cuba and Africa, served as Cultural Events Project Coordinator for the United Nations/NGO Womens Conference in B...

Send us Fan Mail Lise Adams Sherry is the settled minister for the Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.  She grew up in Oregon as part of a blended family.  Her main interests growing up were dancing and theatre--she performed a lot!  Another highlight was learning French and spending her junior year in France. Lise is married to Nelson, and together they have two boys (Kennen and Derek),...

Send us Fan Mail Jim Anderson is the Chief Financial Officer of the Anchorage School District. He joined ASD in 2015 after retiring as a Colonel from 27 years of active federal service in the U.S. Army. Jim served as an infantry officer, ordnance officer, and logistics officer. He served in numerous leadership positions, from Platoon Leader to Battalion Commander, deployed several times to Bosnia,...

Send us Fan Mail Mary Sattler Peltola is the Representative for All of Alaska.  She was elected in August to fill the remainder of the late Representative Don Young’s term, becoming the first Alaska Native to serve in Congress and the first woman from Alaska to serve in the U.S. House. In November, she was elected to a full two-year term in Congress. Rep. Peltola is Yup’ik, born in Alaska and rais...