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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

72:04

Ukraine: Why I Went There, and How We Can Help -...

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2025/02/23

Mike Huelsman is a community activist and advocate. He came to Alaska as a VISTA Volunteer in 1966, served in the combat infantry on the DMZ in Korea, and then worked as a commercial fisherman, carpenter, and laborer in Alaska until he found permanent work. He helped prisoners leaving jail with finding work and housing while working for the Division of Corrections. He was a grants administrator and helped develop and manage alcohol, drug, and mental health programs in Anchorage. As an Ombudsm...

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73:55

Yup'ik Masks - The Unexpected Legacy of Sheldon...

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2025/02/16

Tim Toll has served for the past twenty years as Executive Director of the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust, an organization he helped start in Dillingham in 2000. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, the land trust owns or holds conservation easements on 58,412 acres in Bristol Bay and helped broker protection for 21,320 acres in the Wood Tikchik State Park. Tim came to Alaska in 1978 as a VISTA volunteer lawyer for Alaska Legal Services in Bethel. From 1980 to 1985, he was...

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73:54

Our Urgent Fight for Social Justice - Erin Jackson-Hill

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2025/02/09

Erin Jackson-Hill is Executive Director of Stand Up Alaska, one of the state’s only BIPOC women-led social justice organizations. Her advocacy is mainly focused on issues that disproportionately affect minority communities. She’s a proud alumna of Wonder Park Elementary, Wendler Jr. High School, and Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School. Her rich and diverse experience in nonprofit management and event production began at Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, where she became Events Manager. She has al...

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57:06

Reimagining Opera - Ben Robinson & Dennis Arashiro

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2025/02/02

Ben Robinson is the General Director of Anchorage Opera, the Artistic Director of Raylynmor Opera (New Hampshire), and the Managing Director of Lyric Fest (Philadelphia). He works as a director, librettist, educator, and arts administrator. As a stage director, he is best known for his inspired and engaging storytelling in diverse works ranging from Baroque to modern. He directed the internationally acclaimed film Gianni Schicchi for Opera Ithaca in 2020, which Opera Magazine heralded as the ...

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70:52

The Race Across AmericaBicycling to Fight Lung...

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2025/01/12

Steve Lindbeck has enjoyed a 45-year career in Alaska journalism, public affairs, and non-profit management. He served as CEO & General Manager for Alaska Public Media, Vice Chancellor for Advancement at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Associate Editor of the Anchorage Daily News, and Executive Director of the Alaska Humanities Forum, among other roles. In 2016, he spent an exciting year running for Congress. He has volunteered with many boards and committees, including Progress Alask...

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83:02

A Look at the New Legislative Session with Alaska...

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2025/01/05

Justin Ruffridgge was elected to the Alaska House of Representatives in 2022 to serve the Kenai/Soldotna area and was re-elected in November 2024. He expects to serve on the Health and Social Services Committee in the coming session. His parents, both educators, moved their family to Alaska in 1994, where they taught at a small Christian school. Justin graduated from high school in 2001 and Washington State University with a Doctor of Pharmacy degree in 2008. He married his wife Jessie ...

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76:46

Saving Our Community One Conversation at a Time - Peg...

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2024/12/29

Peg Tileston has been active in Alaska public policy and conservation issues since arriving in the state 51 years ago. She is on the board of Alaska Common Ground, a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose mission is to build coalitions and consensus on matters of importance to Alaskans. She is also on the board of Trustees for Alaska, a non-profit legal organization. Peg spent many years with the Alaska Center for the Environment, co-founded the Alaska Conservation Foundation, and served...

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73:54

A History of the Theology of Unitarian Universalism -...

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2024/12/22

Rev. 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) and a daughter-in-law, Maria. They’ve lived in Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon, Il...

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78:01

Anti-democracy in America and the Arc of History -...

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2024/12/15

Dr. Stephen 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 University of Alaska, where he was named a distinguished professor and was awarded the Edith R. Bullock Prize for Excellen...

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78:58

Fighting for the Wrongly Incarcerated—Precedents,...

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2024/12/08

Jory Knott is the Executive Director of the Alaska Innocence Project. A lifelong Alaskan, he earned an interdisciplinary degree in art and music at UAA, then moved to Oregon, where he composed music, wrote grants for creative projects, and apprenticed in stone masonry. He became the operations manager for a masonry company with stone-cutting operations and rock quarries across the Pacific Northwest. In 2009, he moved back to Alaska. He changed his career trajectory, teaching music and art to ...

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83:53

One Wedding and Some Numerals — A Fresh Look at...

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2024/12/01

Forrest Dunbar - - was elected to the Alaska State Senate in 2022 as a Democrat representing District J, the East Anchorage, Campbell Park, UMED, College Gate, Airport Heights, Mountainview, and Russian Jack neighborhoods. After challenging Don Young for Alaska’s Congressional seat in 2014, Forrest served on the Anchorage Assembly from 2016 to 2023, including two stints as Assembly Chair. Forrest is a lifelong Alaskan, originally from Eagle, on the Yukon River, and a graduate of C...

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72:18

Progress on Eklutna’s Long Journey Toward Building a...

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2024/11/24

Aaron Legget was born in Anchorage and is Dena’ina Athabascan. He currently serves as the President/Chief of the Native village of Eklutna. Aaron is the Senior Curator of Alaska History and Culture at the Anchorage Museum and serves as an advisor to the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center. He is a member of the Alaska State Museum Collections Committee and the Alaska Native Heritage Centers Program & Policy Committee. Also, he serves on the board of directors for the Cook Inlet Historical...

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76:47

An Update on the Rising Food Insecurity Rate in...

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2024/11/24

Daniel Bentle serves the Food Bank of Alaska as its Chief Philanthropy Officer, leading fundraising, donor relations, marketing and communications, and volunteer efforts to support the organization’s mission to eliminate hunger in our state. Daniel came to the Food Bank from the private sector in 2024, having worked in early and growth-stage ventures in agriculture, community and economic development, management consulting, and higher education.Before moving to Alaska, Daniel taught at the Ol...

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68:16

The Nov. 5 Election—What Just Happened? - John-Henry...

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2024/11/10

John-Henry Henkendornis is the managing partner of the Anchorage-based political consulting firm Ship Creek Group. He has worked on over 100 Alaska political campaigns and initiatives in the last 12 years, helping launch Ship Creek Group in 2015 and working as Policy Director to Governor Bill Walker (I-AK) and Aide to Airbnb founder and CEO Brian Chesky. John-Henry graduated from Whitman College with degrees in politics and economics and as an All-American in intercollegiate debate. He ...

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69:55

Teaching ESL and Other Life Skills for Success in...

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2024/11/03

Bridget Jochum is the Development and Operations Support Coordinator at the Alaska Literacy Program. She supports the fundraising and communications arm of ALP’s programming. Bridget previously worked in refugee resettlement services for the State of Alaska, with many of those same resettled refugees now attending classes at ALP. She was a Jesuit Volunteer AmeriCorps with Catholic Social Services in Anchorage after graduating from John Carroll University with a degree in Digital Media C...

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92:09

The Growing Hazard of Landslides in Alaska -...

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2024/10/27

Bretwood "Hig" Higman is a geologist who lives in Seldovia. After graduating from high school there, he spent 13 years in college and grad school, studying glass art and walking from Seattle to the Aleutians before moving back to Seldovia. He earned his bachelor’s degree in geology at Carleton College in Minnesota. Then, in 2007, he earned his PhD in geology at the University of Washington, studying the onshore effects of tsunamis while also studying physics and computer science. He has spent...

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65:59

How the Alaska Economy Works - Prof. Bob Loeffler,...

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2024/10/20

Bob Loeffler is a Research Professor of Public Policy at the UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research, where he teaches and completes research on Alaska's economy, fiscal issues, and natural resources. Along with Dr. Matt Berman, he teaches Econ 300, The Economy of Alaska, at UAA. It is an excerpt from this course that he is presenting at AUUF. He is also a partner in Jade North, a small Alaskan consulting firm, and specializes in working with mining and other natural r...

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59:53

Open Forum - Various Speakers, hosted by John McKay

Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum... ·

2024/10/13

This morning's scheduled speaker was unable to make it to the Forum and is looking forward to being rescheduled. John McKay (our regular host) miraculously rescued the Forum and turned it into an "open forum," allowing folks to participate physically or virtually (via the marvels of modern science—Zoom). We took the opportunity to discuss what was on people's minds.Early on, John stated that this was the Forum for 6 October. It is indeed the 13 October Forum.

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80:24

Big Challenges Facing ASD Classrooms - Corey Aist,...

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2024/10/06

Corey Aist is president of the Anchorage Education Association. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he graduated from the University of California, Davis, with a Bachelor of Science in Child Development in 1992. In 1993, Corey and his then-girlfriend, now wife, drove up the AlCan with their two young puppies, and ever since, have called Alaska home, along with their four children, all students and graduates of Anchorage School District. Corey began working for the Anchorage School District ...

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56:51

Remembering U.S. Senator Bob Bartlett - Joe...

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2024/09/29

Joe Josephson has a long political and public service history in Alaska, beginning in 1957 when he served as legislative assistant to Alaska Delegate in Congress, E. L. (Bob) Bartlett. In 1959, When Bartlett became Alaska's first United States Senator in 1959, Josephson continued as his legislative assistant until 1960. Josephson earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 1953 and attended Columbia University Law School from 1953 to 1955, when he enliste...

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