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Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum Podcasts

Various Speakers

The Speaker"s Forum is held each Sunday morning from 9:00 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Forum topics often address and spur dialogue about a current local community, statewide, national or international issue. Some forums feature a local author and the topic of the author"s new book, or a representative of a local non-governmental organization (NGO) describing the organization’s work, programs, and accomplishments.

religion & spirituality

All Episodes

75:59

Alaskas Infant Learning Program & What We Can Do to...

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2025/07/13

Laura Norton-Cruz is a licensed master social worker (LMSW), Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC), lifelong advocate for children and families, former teacher and victim advocate, artist, and a mother of two wonderful elementary-aged children. She grew up in Anchorage, and attended Mount Holyoke College for undergrad and University of Michigan for graduate school. Laura has lived in Oaxaca, Mxico, and Bogot, Colombia, and taught 3rd grade in a Spanish-English dual immersion program in Californ...

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77:16

Combatting the Threat ofChristian Nationalism - Kay...

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2025/07/06

Kay Brown is a former state official, political strategist and media specialist who moved to Alaska in 1976. Kay has broad experience in political, non-profit and public arenas, including 10 years of service as an Alaska State Representative. After leaving the legislature, she helped assemble and lead a large coalition of Alaska environmental groups, the Alaska Conservation Alliance and Voters. She also served as Director of Oil and Gas for the State of Alaska, and Executive Direc...

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79:49

Rooted in Resilience: RAIS, Refugees, and Rising to...

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2025/06/29

Heba El-Hendi is the Senior Director at CSS’s Refugee Assistance and Immigration Services, bringing over a decade of experience in international development, refugee rights advocacy, and program management. She has worked with UNHCR and USAID, focusing on service delivery, community relations, and partnerships—including work in Western Sahara and Algiers. A Fletcher School graduate from Tufts University, she holds a master’s in human security, refugee & migration studies, and development ...

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74:57

The Alaska Cultural Trust: When Government...

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2025/06/22

Nina Kempell is currently owner of the consulting company, Altius, Fortius where she is working with the Alaska Cultural Trust to develop a fundraising campaign to enable the Trust to provide grants directly to arts and culture organizations. Previously, Kemppel was CEO at the Alaska Community Foundation where she oversaw many successful programs such as Pick.Click.Give and the Social Justice Fund, and partnered with the State to distribute $70 million in COVID-19 grant support to nonprofit o...

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88:01

Cook Inlets declining natural gas: Should we worry...

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2025/06/15

Tim Bradneris publisher of the Alaska Economic Report and Alaska Legislative Digest, and has written extensively on Alaska natural resource and economic issues. He has lived and worked in Alaska since 1962, attending the University of Alaska in Fairbanks and then working as a reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Tundra Times, an Alaska Native weekly newspaper. As a journalist Bradner covered the Alaska Native lands claims movement in the 1960s and its settlement in 1971, ...

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77:46

The Politics of Alaskas Looming Medicaid Crisis - 907...

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2025/06/08

Aubrey Wieber is Executive Director of the 907 Initiative, a public policy watchdog organization based in Anchorage. The 907 Initiative uses mass communications to deliver information on elected officials and issues to Alaskans through a variety of paid advertising platforms. Recent programs include long-term campaigns focusing on former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, increasing the base student allocation for public education, and taking funding away from the Alaska Industrial Development and...

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79:55

Alaska’s 34th Legislature, First Session—What We Did...

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2025/06/01

Löki Gale Tobin was elected in 2022 to represent District I (downtown Anchorage and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson) in the Alaska Senate. Born and raised in Nome, she is a University of Alaska Anchorage graduate and holds a master’s degree in rural development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Peace Corps Master’s International Program, having served as a Youth Development Volunteer in Azerbaijan from 2008-2011. Currently, she's a PhD candidate at UAF; her research topic is focus...

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70:10

Living with Wildfire - Anchorage's Wildland Urban...

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2025/05/25

Dr. Jennifer Schmidt works at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Alaska, as an associate professor of Natural Resource Management and Policy. She has been at ISER since 2015, and before that was in Norway for a few years and Fairbanks since 2002. Jens research revolves around humans and the environment, which means her interests are broad. Currently she works on wildfire risk and resilience, food/water/energy security, and land use. Som...

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80:42

Our System Is Corrupted - Ken Blaylock, Whistleblower

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2025/05/18

Ken Blaylock has lived in Alaska for over 50 years. He served over 20 years in the military, earned a Bronze Star Medal from service in Iraq, and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Ken has been a whistleblower on drugs, sexual assaults, and illegal expenditures of money that led to the removal of multiple senior personnel from the Alaska Army National Guard. He is a small business owner, running his own martial arts school, where he is an instructor. He is also a Certified Master Gardener...

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75:05

The State of Arts and Sciences at University of...

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2025/05/11

Jenny McNulty came to Alaska in 2021 to serve as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at University of Alaska Anchorage. Before that, she spent 25 years in big sky country, as a professor and administrator at University of Montana. She majored in both chemistry and mathematics at Providence College, graduating in 1985, then earned her master's degree in mathematics at Stony Brook University, and her Ph.D. in Mathematics in1993 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She ta...

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2025 Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship...

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2025/05/04

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79:49

Healthy Futures - Harlow Robinson, Executive Director

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2025/04/27

Harlow Robinson is Founding Member of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame. He has been involved with Healthy Futures since 2006, initially serving as an advisory board member, and since 2012 serving as its Executive Director. Prior to his current position, Harlow worked with at-risk youth for 15 years as a direct care staff, supervisor and manager. He has served on numerous boards and commissions and is on the Municipality of Anchorage Parks and Recreation Commission. An accomplished mountain runn...

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75:40

Celebrating National Poetry Month by Remembering Poet...

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2025/04/20

This Sunday the Forum celebrated National Poetry Month by hearing about and listening to poetry of Alaska Poet Laureate Tom Sexton, who died last month. Hear a variety of readers, and maybe a surprise or two. choral music piece used to set five of Tom’s poems to music - https://libbylarsen.com/works/alaska-spring/ Poems read during choral music - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/32kfdncynhujnze5kvu2r/Five-Sexton-Poems.pdf?rlkey=d8nlzesz8c6jgjl2tp6yd7x2i&dl=0

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71:02

The Forum of Your Dreams: How to Explore Your...

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2025/04/13

Dr. Royce Fitts is a holistic and clinical psychotherapist, a licensed marriage and family therapist, a certified dream worker, and a liberal theologian with a doctorate in ministry. He is the author of The Geography of the Soul: Dreams, Reality and the Journey of a Lifetime, which blends memoir, political and social consciousness, and spiritual wisdom and explores relationships between physical and spiritual landscapes, personal and collective histories, and night-time dreams and how they we...

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80:42

Chasing After Our Delegation in the Marble Halls of...

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2025/04/06

Liz Ruskin is the Washington, D.C., correspondent for Alaska Public Media. She covers the state's congressional delegation, public lands, and resource development policy from the nation's capital and Anchorage. She has worked at Alaska Public Media since 2013. She previously worked at the Anchorage Daily News and started her career at the Homer News. She graduated from West Anchorage High School and the University of Washington. She has a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri...

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78:56

Making Stories that Matter in the Age of Artificial...

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2025/03/30

Brad Hillwig is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and communications professional driven by the art of innovative storytelling. During a career in Alaska media that spans more than two decades, Brad has developed and produced television shows for U.S. cable networks, created brand-defining commercial campaigns, and directed documentaries in some of Alaska's most remote places. In 2021, Brad launched Greatland Studios, a startup production company built around authentic, community-based ...

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70:35

Supporting Alaska Refuges for 20 Years -Meg Parsons...

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2025/03/23

Meg Parsons was born and raised in Berkeley, California, in the 50s-60s. She enjoyed what the city and state provided for education and uprearing. She received a BA from Humboldt State College. She left the wet weather and logging industry of the Pacific Northwest to come to Alaska for the summer in 1975, ended up in Homer, and is still smitten with the beauty and spirit of Alaska after fifty years. She joined Friends of AK National Wildlife Refuges (NWR) while attending th...

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77:09

Facing New Challenges on All Fronts - Dr. Jack...

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2025/03/16

Dr. Jack Hickel is the Board President of the Alaska Health Project South Sudan. Jack was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. He has an MD degree and is board-certified with the American Board of Family Medicine. Jack has a Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Diploma from the Republic of South Africa. He worked in Eswatini, Africa, for 16 years, from 1982 to 1997. While there, he was the Chief Medical Officer of a large urban hospital and a small rural hospital and, at various times, was al...

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78:57

Obesity and Health in Our Community: Can AUUF Help? -...

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2025/03/09

Molly Southworth is an endocrinologist, retired from the Alaska Tribal Health System, a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor of Medical Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage / WWAMI. She is also the Past Regent of the American College of Physicians. Molly graduated from Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and as an undergraduate, she studied music and chemistry at Oberlin College. She served as principal harpis...

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77:25

Suzanne LaFrance - Mayor of Anchorage

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2025/03/02

Suzanne LaFrance was elected as the mayor of Anchorage in 2024. Before becoming mayor, she represented South Anchorage on the Anchorage Assembly from 2017 to 2023. She served as Assembly Chair from 2021 to 2023, was Chair of the Assembly's Budget and Finance Committee, and Co-Chair of its Health Policy Committee. She also served on the board of the Alaska Municipal League. She is a 25-year Anchorage resident with 25 years of private sector experience, managing budgets, projects, and people. L...

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