Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Forum Podcasts
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.
Episodes
615 episodes
Teaching ESL and Other Life Skills for Success in Jobs and Our Community - Bridget Jochum, Alaska Literacy Program
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...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1103
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1:09:55
The Growing Hazard of Landslides in Alaska - Geologist Bretwood "Hig" Higman
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 Seldovi...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1027
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1:32:09
How the Alaska Economy Works - Prof. Bob Loeffler, UAA Institute of Social and Economic Research
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 Berm...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1020
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1:05:59
Open Forum - Various Speakers, hosted by John McKay
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 phys...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1013
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59:53
Big Challenges Facing ASD Classrooms - Corey Aist, President, Anchorage Education Association
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-g...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1006
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1:20:24
Remembering U.S. Senator Bob Bartlett - Joe Josephson, former State Senator, and Bartlett Aide, with Andy Josephson
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 ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 929
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56:51
De-weaponizing the Bible - Rev. Matt Schultz
Rev. Matt Schultz graduated from Westminster College with a BA in Art in 1995. He is married to Rev. Elizabeth Schultz. Together, they attended Princeton Theological Seminary and are ordained as pastors in the Presbyterian Church (USA). ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 922
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1:17:53
Turning 90: Approaching My Next Summit, and Still Stopping for the Flowers - Tom Choate
Tom Choate is a mountain climbing legend, former college biology professor with a Ph.D. from the University of Montana, who was a ski infantryman and served in a US Army intelligence and reconnaissance unit at Fort Richardson during the ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 915
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1:13:03
A TV & Film Actors Play about Battling His Sons Brain Cancer with Hope & Love - James Morrison, Paul Brown, Dave Block
James Morrison is a playwright, TV, film, stage actor, filmmaker, poet, singer-songwriter, and yoga teacher. He was raised in Anchorage, served his theatrical apprenticeship with the Alaska Repertory Theatre, and since has appeared at the La Jo...
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Season 2024
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Episode 908
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1:05:39
Ballot Measure #1: Higher Minimum Wage, Paid Sick Leave and Worker Protections - AFL-CIO President Joelle Hall
Joelle Hall is the President of the Alaska AFL-CIO, elected in 2020. She is the first woman to hold the role. Before her election, she served as the Alaska AFL-CIO Political Director for 11 years. Joelle has worked in Alaska politi...
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Season 2024
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Episode 901
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1:19:14
The View from Inside Alaska Airlines - Alaska Airlines Vice-President Marilyn Romano
Marilyn Romano is the Alaska regional vice president for Alaska Airlines. She spent nearly two decades with the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, the second largest paper in Alaska, and 11 years as publisher. She was the newspaper’s first woma...
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Season 2024
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Episode 824
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1:23:03
The Pioneering Photography of Bradford Washburn - John Hagen, Anchorage Museum
John Hagen is the Curator of Indigenous Art and Initiatives at the Anchorage Museum. Hagen works to further the Museum's work with Alaska living cultures, with an emphasis on Indigenous art, artists, climate change, national and internat...
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Season 2024
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Episode 818
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1:10:35
Alaska Woman Ascend: Helping Progressive Women Run, Vote & Win - Suzanne Little
Suzanne Little has worked extensively in partnership with Alaska Native Tribes who live in intrinsic connection with remote lands across the state. She is currently staff to the 38-Tribe Bering Sea Interior Tribal Commission. Her work ai...
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Season 2024
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Episode 811
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1:16:28
Documenting the Death Penalty in the US Through Photographs for over 25 Years - Scott Langley, photographer and human rights activist
Scott Langley is a New York-based photographer specializing in documentary work on human rights in the United States and elsewhere. His work has been widely exhibited worldwide, and he often travels with his exhibits to give presentation...
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Season 2024
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Episode 804
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1:15:50
Tiny Shelter Pilot Project for Interim Housing of Homeless Seniors - Betsy Baker, In Our Backyard
Betsy Baker is a board member of In Our Backyard, a new Anchorage nonprofit whose mission is to provide safe interim housing and connections to support services for unhoused senior neighbors. Dr. Baker is an international lawyer whose co...
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Season 2024
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Episode 728
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1:13:08
The Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: A Conversation - Kate McClellan
Kate McClellan was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and spent her youth in the suburbs of Chicago. In 1977, just before she turned 17, she left a traumatic home life and headed for Alaska in a VW bus, moving here permanently in 1986. Kate...
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Season 2024
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Episode 721
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1:17:28
Academies of Anchorage—How A New Program Will Reshape ASD High School Education - Cindy Chaput & Misha Chakraborty
Cindy Chaput is the College, Career, and Life Ready Director for the Anchorage School District. An Alaskan resident for 28 years, Cindy has spent three decades in the education sector, gaining valuable experience in administration and co...
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Season 2024
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Episode 714
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1:24:39
How To Talk About Climate Change - Dr Travis Rector & Paola Banchero
Travis’s primary interest areas are star formation, climate change advocacy, and astronomy education research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Physics from Trinity University in 1992 and his master’s (1995) and Ph.D. (1998) in A...
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Season 2024
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Episode 707
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1:31:07
A Life with Vic Fischer—Reflections On Statesmanship and Public Policy - Jane Angvik
Jane Anvik came to Alaska in 1973 as a city planner for the Anchorage Borough. She served in political office as an elected member of the Anchorage Charter Commission and later a six-year member of the Anchorage Assembly, which she chair...
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Season 2024
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Episode 630
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2:04:12
Alaska’s Afghan Refugee Community - Asia Amini, Dena Doublex
Asia Amini, her husband Abdul, and their one-month-old son, Mohammed, fled Afghanistan after the fall of Kabul in August 2021. In January 2022, the family moved to Anchorage, which now includes their almost 2-year-old daughter, Al...
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Season 2024
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Episode 623
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1:27:44
Climate Change and the Bering Sea Fisheries - Journalist Hal Bernton
Hal Bernton has worked in journalism for more than four decades. He was a staff reporter for The Seattle Times from 2000 to March 2023 and previously worked in Alaska for more than a decade with the Anchorage Daily News. The Oregonian, T...
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Season 2024
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Episode 616
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1:16:53
My Life in Alaska Theatre - A Conversation with Playwright, Actor, Director, and Producer Dick Reichman
Dick Reichman has been a central figure in Alaska theatre for decades as a playwright, actor, director, producer, and more. He was born in 1945 in New York's Garment District. Instead of returning to take over the family store after coll...
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Season 2024
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Episode 609
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1:16:23
Stories from our civil rights pilgrimage to Alabama - Erik and Robin Hill, Mel Langdon, & Marty Freeman
Erik was born and raised in Eugene, Oregon, and Robin is from Kansas City, Missouri. They met at The Kansas City Star, where Erik worked as a photographer, and Robin covered city hall and courts as a reporter. Moving to Anchorage ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 602
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1:20:53
Alaskas 33rd Legislature What We Did, What We Didn't Do, What Lies Ahead - Senate Majority Leader Cathy Giessel
Cathy Giessel, the majority leader of the Alaska Senate Bipartisan Coalition. She was first elected to the Senate in 2011 and served as Senate President from 2019-21 before taking a short break from elective office. She was born in...
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Season 2024
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Episode 526
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1:18:44
The Girls in the Boat - The Sisterly Art of Rowing from the Heart - George Bryson
George Bryson is a journalist who worked for the Anchorage Daily News for 30 years as a reporter, Washington correspondent, magazine writer, and editor of We Alaskans. He holds an MFA degree in creative writing and has taught journalism ...
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Season 2024
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Episode 519
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1:16:17
