See Stories Podcast

Cody Page is a recent West Anchorage High School graduate, a rising basketball videographer, and an electrician in the making. In this deeply personal story, first shared at Tikahtnu Upper Cook Inlet National Heritage Day with the Alaska Humanities Forum, Cody reflects on his journey from homelessness in Las Vegas to finding belonging, purpose, and creative passion in Anchorage. He shares how pick...

This interview, generously funded by the Rasmuson Foundation and conducted by Alice Qannik Glenn of Coffee & Quaq, delves into Barbara’s exploration of her family’s WWII internment story. Originally from Atka, Barbara’s family was displaced to Angoon during the war. In 2022, Barbara traveled to Angoon to interview community members, uncovering pieces of her family’s history and reconnecting wi...

This project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created on Dena’ina Land consisted of two podcasting workshops. Held at Bettye Davis East High School and West High School in the Spring of 2023. Students learned the basic flow of podcast production from idea development, story structure, and sound design to field recording, interviewing, scripting, mixing, editing, and producing podc...

This project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created on Dena’ina Land consisted of two podcasting workshops. Held at Bettye Davis East High School and West High School in the Spring of 2023. Students learned the basic flow of podcast production from idea development, story structure, and sound design to field recording, interviewing, scripting, mixing, editing, and producing podc...

This project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created on Dena’ina Land consisted of two podcasting workshops. Held at Bettye Davis East High School and West High School in the Spring of 2023. Students learned the basic flow of podcast production from idea development, story structure, and sound design to field recording, interviewing, scripting, mixing, editing, and producing podc...

This project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created on Dena’ina Land consisted of two podcasting workshops. Held at Bettye Davis East High School and West High School in the Spring of 2023. Students learned the basic flow of podcast production from idea development, story structure, and sound design to field recording, interviewing, scripting, mixing, editing, and producing podc...

This project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created on Dena’ina Land consisted of two podcasting workshops. Held at Bettye Davis East High School and West High School in the Spring of 2023. Students learned the basic flow of podcast production from idea development, story structure, and sound design to field recording, interviewing, scripting, mixing, editing, and producing podc...

This project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created on Dena’ina Land consisted of two podcasting workshops. Held at Bettye Davis East High School and West High School in the Spring of 2023. Students learned the basic flow of podcast production from idea development, story structure, and sound design to field recording, interviewing, scripting, mixing, editing, and producing podc...

This project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created on Dena’ina Land consisted of two podcasting workshops. Held at Bettye Davis East High School and West High School in the Spring of 2023. Students learned the basic flow of podcast production from idea development, story structure, and sound design to field recording, interviewing, scripting, mixing, editing, and producing podc...

The Culture and Covid 19 Project took place on Sugpiaq land, and Kodiak youth documented their pandemic journey. The workshop was a partnership between the Kodiak History Museum, Rafael Bitanga, and Marie Acemah, Director of See Stories. The project was funded by the Alaska Community Foundation Social Justice Fund and the Charlotte Martin Foundation. Joseph is in 10th grade. His podcast focuses on...

The Culture and Covid 19 Project took place on Sugpiaq land, and Kodiak youth documented their pandemic journey. The workshop was a partnership between the Kodiak History Museum, Rafael Bitanga, and Marie Acemah, Director of See Stories. The project was funded by the Alaska Community Foundation Social Justice Fund and the Charlotte Martin Foundation. James is going into 9th grade. In his podcast,...

The Culture and Covid 19 Project took place on Sugpiaq land, and Kodiak youth documented their pandemic journey. The workshop was a partnership between the Kodiak History Museum, Rafael Bitanga, and Marie Acemah, Director of See Stories. The project was funded by the Alaska Community Foundation Social Justice Fund and the Charlotte Martin Foundation. Amara is a 9th grader. Her podcast is about how...

The Culture and Covid 19 Project took place on Sugpiaq land, and Kodiak youth documented their pandemic journey. The workshop was a partnership between the Kodiak History Museum, Rafael Bitanga, and Marie Acemah, Director of See Stories. The project was funded by the Alaska Community Foundation Social Justice Fund and the Charlotte Martin Foundation. Luke is a 5th grader, and he created a movie co...

The Culture and Covid 19 Project took place on Sugpiaq land, and Kodiak youth documented their pandemic journey. The workshop was a partnership between the Kodiak History Museum, Rafael Bitanga, and Marie Acemah, Director of See Stories. The project was funded by the Alaska Community Foundation Social Justice Fund and the Charlotte Martin Foundation. Jude is a 6th grader. His video chronicles “a d...

The Culture and Covid 19 Project took place on Sugpiaq land, and Kodiak youth documented their pandemic journey. The workshop was a partnership between the Kodiak History Museum, Rafael Bitanga, and Marie Acemah, Director of See Stories. The project was funded by the Alaska Community Foundation Social Justice Fund and the Charlotte Martin Foundation. Scout is an 8th grader, who created a documenta...

This project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created on Dena’ina Land consisted of two podcasting workshops. Held at Bettye Davis East High School and West High School in the Spring of 2023. Students learned the basic flow of podcast production from idea development, story structure, and sound design to field recording, interviewing, scripting, mixing, editing, and producing podc...

This project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and created on Dena’ina Land consisted of two podcasting workshops. Held at Bettye Davis East High School and West High School in the Spring of 2023. Students learned the basic flow of podcast production from idea development, story structure, and sound design to field recording, interviewing, scripting, mixing, editing, and producing podc...

This podcast was produced by Iqlas Dubed, and was funded by Center for Safe Alaskans. Marie Acemah and Kaitlin Armstrong provided mentorship to Iqlas on this project.   Iqlas Dubed is looking to change the way Alaskan Schools teach the required Alaska Studies class. As a high school student, Iqlas was struck by how the curriculum lacked Alaska Native history, cultures, and present-day context. Thi...

Healthy housing is fair housing. Mold, leaks and increased housing costs  is just a small part of the problem. Parents living with children and grandparents, doing what we can to take care of each other. The housing crisis is not a new problem. The problem started when white men started taking over land which belonged to the tribes. Touching on historical and current housing issues. Arguing that t...

A memorial to Herbie Nix from his classmates and teacher. This podcast goes on to touch on Herbies bigger than life personality. Sharing  their earliest memories of their classmate/student, epic basketball games, struggles and their last memories. This podcast is to keep Herbies memory alive for everyone who he lived life with as well as his daughter who he never had the chance to meet. This podca...

This after-school story and film workshop at the Bettye Davis East High School (2019) was led collaboratively by See Stories and Story Works, and generously funded by the Alaska Community Foundation. Students developed first person stories to create podcasts to share their cultures through each students’ unique lens. Mailee discovers the music of the Qeej. She speaks about being discouraged by pas...

This after-school story and film workshop at the Bettye Davis East High School (2019) was led collaboratively by See Stories and Story Works, and generously funded by the Alaska Community Foundation. Students developed first person stories to create podcasts to share their cultures through each students’ unique lens. Iglas goes on a cooking journey. Moving from Somalia to Alaska was not only a cul...

This after-school story and film workshop at the Bettye Davis East High School (2019) was led collaboratively by See Stories and Story Works, and generously funded by the Alaska Community Foundation. Students developed first person stories to create podcasts to share their cultures through each students’ unique lens. Ruwayda shares her evolving relationship with fasting. When she first became old...

The Culture and Covid 19 Project took place on Sugpiaq land, and Kodiak youth document their pandemic journey. The workshop was a partnership between the Kodiak History Museum, Rafael Bitanga, and Marie Acemah, director of  See Stories. The project was funded by the Alaska Community Foundation Social Justice Fund and the Charlotte Martin Foundation. Everyone needs an escape, especially when neck d...

This after-school story and film workshop at the Bettye Davis East High School (2019) was led collaboratively by See Stories and Story Works, and generously funded by the Alaska Community Foundation. Students developed first person stories to create podcasts to share their cultures through each students’ unique lens. Daniel talks about his journey with fitness. How much he struggled with consisten...