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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641 episodes
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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1:18:57
Suzanne LaFrance - Mayor of Anchorage
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 302
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1:17:25
Ukraine: Why I Went There, and How We Can Help - Michael Huelsman
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 f...
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Season 2025
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Episode 223
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1:12:04
Yup'ik Masks - The Unexpected Legacy of Sheldon Jackson - Tim Troll
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 h...
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Season 2025
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Episode 216
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1:13:55
Our Urgent Fight for Social Justice - Erin Jackson-Hill
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 209
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1:13:54
Reimagining Opera - Ben Robinson & Dennis Arashiro
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 administrat...
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Season 2025
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Episode 202
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57:06
The Race Across AmericaBicycling to Fight Lung Disease - Steve Lindbeck and Brad Cruz
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 Anch...
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Season 2025
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Episode 112
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1:10:52
A Look at the New Legislative Session with Alaska State Representatives Andrew Gray (D) & Justin Ruffridge (R)
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...
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Season 2025
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Episode 105
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1:23:02
Saving Our Community One Conversation at a Time - Peg Tileston
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 coaliti...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1229
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1:16:46
A History of the Theology of Unitarian Universalism - Questions and Answers - Rev. Lise Adams Sherry
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...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1204
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1:13:54
Anti-democracy in America and the Arc of History - UAA History Professor Emeritus Dr. Stephen Haycox
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 Ye...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1215
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1:18:01
Fighting for the Wrongly Incarcerated—Precedents, Policies, and Prevention - Jory Knott, Executive Director, Alaska Innocence Project
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, a...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1208
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1:18:58
One Wedding and Some Numerals — A Fresh Look at Housing - Alaska State Senator Forrest Dunbar
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. Af...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1201
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1:23:53
An Update on the Rising Food Insecurity Rate in Alaska–and How to Support FBA - Daniel Bentle, Food Bank of Alaska
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 st...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1124
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1:16:47
Progress on Eklutna’s Long Journey Toward Building a Casino - Native Village of Eklutna President and Chief Aaron Leggett
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 a...
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Season 2024
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Episode 1124
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1:12:18
