Looking back on a year of Work With Us

In the spring of 2025, the Forum unexpectedly lost significant federal funding. Staff Polly Carr looks back on the year of challenge, creativity, and community building that emerged out of this crisis.

Partner Highlight: Alaska Native Heritage Center

"They sit up a little straighter and ask more questions." Story Works check-in Pt. 2

Rethinking leadership with LA28 alum Elizabeth Pantaleone

Leadership Anchorage 28 alum Elizabeth Pantaleone describes how participating in the program changed how she saw her roles in her community and upended her earlier assumptions about leadership.

"It gives me hope." Checking in with Story Works Program Coordinator Julian Ramirez, Pt. 1

Last February, Julian Ramirez joined the Forum as our Story Works Program Coordinator. We asked him about how he’s settling in and the impacts he’s already seen Story Works have on students.

Tackling unbridgeable differences in the Forum's Facilitating Through Conflict workshop

Nicole Hallingstad, the owner of A&A Solutions, shares how last spring's workshop resonated with her professionally, as she helps organizations navigate change, and personally, as a person with strong connections to her cultures.