East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray

Send us Fan Mail Jane Angvik was an Anchorage Charter Commission member who drafted the founding document that unified the city and borough of Anchorage in 1975. On July 1, 2024, she administered the oath of office at the inauguration of Anchorage Mayor Suzanne LaFrance. Jane has spent her life in service to Alaska whether at her first job for the Anchorage borough as a planner upon her arrival in...

Send us Fan Mail Community activist Dr. Cal Williams was born on November 30, 1941, in Monroe, Louisiana. A college graduate, Williams served in the United States Air Force during the early 1960s and participated in the Civil Rights Movement through his affiliation with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). In 1965, following the advice of Charles and John LeViege, two high school friends who we...

Send us Fan Mail   Tafilisaunoa Toleafoa was born and raised in the islands of Samoa in the the South Pacific.  She moved to Anchorage 20 years ago to join the rest of her family who were already here. Ms. Toleafoa serves as Executive Director at the Pacific Community of Alaska . She serves as co-chair for the board of directors for the National Association of Pasifika Organizations (NAOPO)  and m...

Send us Fan Mail University of Alaska Anchorage Economics Professor Kevin Berry returns to the podcast to discuss the Alaska economy. For a deeper dive into his personal story, listen to his episode from November 2022 ( click here ). Today we talk about the way the private sector and the public sector economies interact with each other in typical states and how Alaska is different; the need for zo...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of Juneteenth 2024, I am airing an interview I conducted with Sen. Elvi Gray-Jackson from 2023 for my previous podcast, "East Anchorage Matters." Last month the Alaska State House and Senate passed Sen. Gray-Jackson's bill making Juneteenth an Alaska State Holiday. Juneteenth commemorates the ending of slavery in the United States and began in Galveston, Te...

Send us Fan Mail intérprete: Israel Portilla Gomez La información de este episodio se basa en una entrevista que realizó en 2024 con Jeremy Applegate, jefe de la división de Salarios y Horas del Departamento de Trabajo del Estado de Alaska. Todos los trabajadores en Alaska tienen derecho a un salario y un trato justos según la ley. Muchos trabajadores desconocen sus derechos, lo que permite al emp...

Send us Fan Mail Перекладач: Катерина Клименченко Інформація в цьому епізоді базується на інтерв’ю, яке він провів у 2024 році з Джеремі Епплгейтом, керівником відділу оплати праці та робочих годин Департаменту праці штату Аляска. Відповідно до закону, усі працівники на Алясці мають право на справедливу оплату праці та ставлення. Багато працівників не знають своїх прав, і це дає змогу роботодавцю...

Send us Fan Mail See on eestikeelne versioon taskuhäälingusaate intervjuust Jeremy Applegate’iga – Alaska tööministeeriumi palga ja tunni osakonna juhatajaga. Kui arvate, et teie õigusi on rikutud, helistage numbril 907-269-4900. Te ei pea inglise keelt rääkima. Interpreter assistance: Leino Mandre.

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Send us Fan Mail Ito ay isang Filipino na bersyon ng isang nakaraang podcast episode. Ang layunin ay upang turuan ang mga manggagawa tungkol sa kanilang mga karapatan. Ang interpreter ay si Elsie Janes. Kung naniniwala ka na ang iyong mga karapatan ay nilabag, makipag-ugnayan sa Alaska Department of Labor sa statewide.wagehour@alaska.gov o tumawag sa 907-269-4900. Hindi mo kailangang magsalita ng...

Send us Fan Mail 이번 팟캐스트 에피소드는 송명숙 번역가가 참여한 한국어 버전입니다. 알래스카의 모든 근로자는 공정한 임금과 안전한 근무 조건을 누릴 자격이 있습니다. 귀하의 권리가 침해되었다고 생각되면 907-269-4900으로 전화하십시오. 불만사항을 제기하기 위해 영어를 구사할 수 있을 필요는 없습니다.

Send us Fan Mail This short episode is largely based on information gathered from the podcast interview  with Jeremy Applegate, the chief of the Wage and Hour division for the State of Alaska Department of Labor, from May 6, 2024. To listen to the whole interview, click here . The plan is to release this short guide in Spanish, Tagalog, Hmong, Ukranian, and other languages so that non-English spea...

Send us Fan Mail Amber Batts is a founding member of the Community United for Safety and Protection (also known as CUSP), an Alaska-based group of current and former sex workers, sex trafficking survivors, and allies working towards safety and protection in Alaska’s sex industry. Amber began working as sex worker at the age of 30 to escape an abusive marriage while supporting her two young childre...

Send us Fan Mail Rebecca Braun of Juneau moved to Alaska about 30 years ago initially to work for the forestry service. She then taught math and science at Juneau-Douglas High School before randomly applying for a journalist position with The Alaska Budget Report . The Alaska Budget Report , which no longer exists, was a nonpartisan publication that covered state government in depth. In 2005 she p...

Send us Fan Mail Donna Arduin is most well known in Alaska as Governor Dunleavy's 2019 director of the Office of Management and Budget. She is currently staff for representative Ben Carpenter of Nikiski. As Dunleavy's OMB Director, she advised major cuts to the state budget including eliminating the state ferry system, dismantling the University of Alaska, and drastically cutting funding...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy Applegate is the chief of Wage and Hour for the State of Alaska Department of Labor. The goal of today’s episode is to inform workers, particularly seasonal workers who may have never worked in Alaska before, of their rights. Important things to know up front: workers are entitled to a written contract at the start of their employment which specifies how much they will be p...

Send us Fan Mail Municipal attorney of Bethel Libby Bakalar is today's guest. Libby became famous in Alaska for her blog, One Hot Mess, and then her social media presence as One Hot Mess Alaska. Her outspokenness led to her unlawfully firing by the Dunleavy administration when she was working there as an assistant attorney general. Today, we discuss all of that as well as her complicated feel...

Send us Fan Mail Today is the final episode in our series on Transgender Rights. I, Rep. Andrew Gray , explain the purpose of this series and broadcast the special order that I gave on the Alaska State House floor on April 17, 2024. It provides an olive branch to folks who may be on the other side with regards to these issues. It is my sincere belief that the vast majority of those opposed to tran...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Marci Bowers is a pelvic and gynecologic surgeon with more than 32 years’ experience. She is the president of WPATH – the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Her gender diverse work has been highlighted through appearances on Oprah, CBS Sunday Morning, Discovery Health and the TLC reality series, “I am Jazz." She was interviewed in 2021 by Leslie Stahl...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Joshua Safer   is the executive director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York. He is the founding medical director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine, and he was the inaugural president of the United States Professional Association for Transgender Health (USPATH).  He serves on the Gl...

Send us Fan Mail Becca Bernard is a former environmental lawyer and a Unitarian Universalist community minister based in Anchorage. She is also mom to two children, one of whom is trans. This episode is part of a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bills currently moving through the Alaska State House: HB 183 which bans trans girls from playing girls sports; HB 10...

Send us Fan Mail David Leslie is an Inupiaq Sipiniq (Two-Spirit) living in Fairbanks. He is a frequent testifier against the anti-trans bills moving through the Alaska State House. We discuss his specific perspective as a queer Alaska Native man. To check out the book recommended by our guest,  Yuuyaraq: The Way of The Human Being,  by Harold Napoleon,  Click here . This episode is part of a serie...

Send us Fan Mail Henry is a 15 year old trans boy. He and his mother are the guests today discussing their experience in Alaska. No last names will be given in the interest of their safety. This episode is part of a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bills currently moving through the Alaska State House: HB 183 which bans trans girls from playing girls sports; HB...

Send us Fan Mail Jessica Kalarchik was an Army First Sergeant who deployed with me and the Alaska Army National Guard’s 1-297th infantry battalion to Kosovo 2019-2020. 1st Sergeant Kalarchik presented as a very masculine man, and I never suspected that she was a trans woman. She was medically retired after 31 years in the military during her next deployment to Poland. Leaving the military gave her...

Send us Fan Mail Aaron Poe has been a wildlife biologist in Alaska since 1998. He is the father of a trans daughter in the Anchorage School District, and today we discuss that experience. This episode is the first in a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bills currently moving through the Alaska State House: HB 183 which bans trans girls from playing girls sports;...