"Alaska is Only a Good Fit if I’m Here for the Kids!"
In honor of National Mentoring Month, Amanda Cox, a C3 Program alum and educator in Dillingham, reflects on serving as a Near Peer Mentor for this year's cohort of C3 educators in the Bristol Bay Region.
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Amanda Cox • January 27, 2025"Alaska is Only a Good Fit if I’m Here for the Kids!"
Amanda Cox • January 27, 2025"This Can Be the Most Powerful Part of the Entire Program": Mentorship in Leadership Anchorage
January is National Mentoring Month, and we’re uplifting some of our favorite stories of mentorship from Forum programs. In this post we meet Esbei Arurang (LA Cohort 27) and his program Mentor, Paul (Bear) Barendregt.
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Amanda Dale • January 15, 2025"This Can Be the Most Powerful Part of the Entire Program": Mentorship in Leadership Anchorage
Amanda Dale • January 15, 2025The Journey from For-Profit to Non-Profit: AKHF’s VP of Operations Reflects on Two Years at the Forum
Ryan Ossenkop started as Vice President of Operations at the Alaska Humanities Forum in November 2022. Here, he looks back at his first two years in the nonprofit sector - and what makes the Forum feel like the Forum.
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Amanda Dale • January 6, 2025The Journey from For-Profit to Non-Profit: AKHF’s VP of Operations Reflects on Two Years at the Forum
Amanda Dale • January 6, 2025"An Amazing Gift of Curiosity": A Conversation About Storytelling with Filmmaker Rafael Bitanga
AKHF's Shoshi Bieler spoke with filmmaker Rafael Bitanga to learn more about why he tells stories through film and the people who have supported him along the way.
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Shoshi Bieler • December 24, 2024"An Amazing Gift of Curiosity": A Conversation About Storytelling with Filmmaker Rafael Bitanga
Shoshi Bieler • December 24, 2024“I Feel More Connected to Who I Am”: Introducing the Ilakucaraq Activity Guides
Students who know who they are and feel positively about their identities are more likely to graduate and successfully navigate life after high school. Read how "I Am" poems help support this conversation in Forum youth programs.
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Amanda Dale • December 19, 2024“I Feel More Connected to Who I Am”: Introducing the Ilakucaraq Activity Guides
Amanda Dale • December 19, 2024"Kids Need This and Deserve It:" Inside Thrive Together with Teacher Tara Devlin
Anchorage educator Tara Devlin shares about her experiences with Thrive Together, the Forum's first after-school program for students in Anchorage.
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Tara Devlin • November 25, 2024"Kids Need This and Deserve It:" Inside Thrive Together with Teacher Tara Devlin
Tara Devlin • November 25, 2024The Alaska Humanities Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that designs and facilitates experiences to bridge distance and difference – programming that shares and preserves the stories of people and places across our vast state, and explores what it means to be Alaskan.
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