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.
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655 episodes
Healthcare in AlaskaUnderstanding tribal health organizations, community health centers, and the shifting healthcare landscape - Dr. Douglas Eby, MD MPH
Douglas Eby, MD, MPH, has worked as a physician executive in support of Alaska Native people for over 30 years. He has been the VP of Medical Services for the Baldrige Award-winning Southcentral Foundation for over 25 years, ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 824
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1:16:37
How Alaska Public Lands Became Private and Our Cabin Will Become Yours - Judith Anderegg and David Pelto
Judith Anderegg and David Pelto have more than 100 years of life in Alaska between them. Judith came to Anchorage with her family in 1957; David's family arrived in Juneau in 1966. Both attended colleges in the lower f...
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Season 2025
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Episode 817
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1:10:20
Navigating Life's Waters: Rowing the Pacific and Beyond - Sophia Walters
Sophia is a coach, athlete, bodyworker, and lifelong learner. She is passionate about human resilience, building teams, and uplifting passionate people. After several years of rowing competitively in flat water, Sophia set her eyes on th...
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Season 2025
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Episode 810
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1:17:08
“Planned Parenthood in Alaska—We Need Each Other More Than Ever” - Rose O’Hara-Jolley
Rose O'Hara-Jolley is state director of Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates, working to protect and promote reproductive and LGBTQ2+ health, rights, and justice. They oversee statewide advocacy programs, policy and legislative efforts,...
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Season 2025
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Episode 803
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1:14:57
Injustice & Art - Daniel Gwynn
Daniel Gwynn was sentenced to death in Philadelphia in 1994 after being convicted of first-degree murder, arson, and aggravated assault in the death of Marsha Smith. Thirty years later, in February 2024, the Philadelphia District Attorne...
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Season 2025
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Episode 727
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1:14:21
Japanese Americans: Diverse Experiences and Identities - Dennis Arashiro
Dennis Arashiro is a longtime member of AUUF and is the Executive Board President of the Alaska Japanese American Citizens League of Alaska.
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Season 2025
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Episode 720
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1:22:11
Alaskas Infant Learning Program & What We Can Do to Support It - Film Producer Laura Norton-Cruz
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 chil...
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Season 2025
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Episode 713
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1:15:59
Combatting the Threat of Christian Nationalism - Kay Brown and Larry Michael
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 Representat...
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Season 2025
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Episode 706
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1:17:16
Rooted in Resilience: RAIS, Refugees, and Rising to New Challenges - Heba El-Hendi
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 ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 629
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1:19:49
The Alaska Cultural Trust: When Government Aggressively Cuts Funding, Who Fills the Void? - Nina Kemppel
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 organizat...
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Season 2025
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Episode 622
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1:14:57
Cook Inlets declining natural gas: Should we worry about keeping our homes warm? - Tim Bradner, Alaska Journalist and Publisher
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 615
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1:28:01
The Politics of Alaskas Looming Medicaid Crisis - 907 Initiative Exec. Dir. Aubrey Wieber
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 608
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1:17:46
Alaska’s 34th Legislature, First Session—What We Did and Didn’t Do & What’s Next - State Senator Löki Gale Tobin
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 601
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1:19:55
Living with Wildfire - Anchorage's Wildland Urban Interface - UAA Prof. Jennifer Schmidt, ISER
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 ...
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Season 2025
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Episode 525
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1:10:10
Our System Is Corrupted - Ken Blaylock, Whistleblower
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, an...
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Season 2025
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Episode 518
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1:20:42
The State of Arts and Sciences at University of Alaska Anchorage - UAA CAS Dean Jenny McNulty
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 Montan...
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Season 2025
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Episode 511
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1:15:05
2025 Anchorage Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Annual Meeting
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Season 2025
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Episode 504
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3:02:01
Healthy Futures - Harlow Robinson, Executive Director
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 cur...
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Season 2025
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Episode 427
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1:19:49
Celebrating National Poetry Month by Remembering Poet Laurate Tom Sexton - Various Speakers
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 s...
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Season 2025
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Episode 420
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1:15:40
The Forum of Your Dreams: How to Explore Your Nighttime Dreams for Spiritual Growth and Healing and Societal Change - Dr. Royce Fitts:
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,...
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Season 2025
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Episode 411
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1:11:02
Chasing After Our Delegation in the Marble Halls of the U.S. Capitol - Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media D.C. Corresponden
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 P...
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Season 2025
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Episode 406
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1:20:42
Making Stories that Matter in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Brad Hillwig, Filmmaker and UAA Atwood Professor of Journalism
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 telev...
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Season 2025
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Episode 330
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1:18:56
Supporting Alaska Refuges for 20 Years -Meg Parsons and Poppy Benson, Friends of Alaska Natl Wildlife Refuges
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 323
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1:10:35
Facing New Challenges on All Fronts - Dr. Jack Hickel, Alaska Health Project South Sudan
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 Tropi...
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Season 2025
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Episode 316
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1:17:09
Obesity and Health in Our Community: Can AUUF Help? - Dr. Molly Southworth
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 Al...
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Season 2025
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Episode 309
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