Malik Allen joined the Alaska Humanities Forum in June as the Operations Coordinator. In this newly created position, Malik supports the administrative and financial operations of the Forum, as well...
Nancy Hemsath
Jul 09, 2021
Since 2019 the Alaska Humanities Forum has been hosting programming designed to build trust between journalists and community through the national Democracy and the...
Jann Mylet
Jun 22, 2021
The Alaska Humanities Forum is excited to announce its 2021 annual grants awards! Six organizations across the state will each receive grants in the amount of $15,000 for projects - digital products, publications, film, exhibits, and oral histories - that engage,...
Jann Mylet
May 21, 2021
What does it look like to practice civic engagement? This has been a question core to Forum programming throughout April, and as May comes into full swing, it begs to be reflected on.
Throughout the last few months, the Forum...
Lev Greenstein
May 14, 2021
For over 10 years, former professional athlete Damen Bell-Holter (Haida) has been working with youth and Indigenous communities around the world through basketball camps, workshops, school visits, keynote speeches, and...
Jann Mylet
Apr 13, 2021
As a part of the national "Why It Matters: Civic and Electoral Participation" initiative, administered by the Federation of State Humanities Councils and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon...
Jann Mylet
Apr 05, 2021
The Forum is excited to welcome Helen Panruk John as a Youth Program Coordinator. Helen's family is from Toksook Bay and Unalakleet and she spent part of...
Jann Mylet
Mar 05, 2021
As a child who grew up in the 80’s and 90’s in New York City, Francisco Mercado has seen the effects poverty and racism can have on a community...
Jann Mylet
Jan 26, 2021
Leadership Anchorage has launched its 24th year with a cohort of 14 leaders from a wide range of backgrounds, experience, and sectors across the Anchorage bowl. Although restrictions in response to COVID-19 have altered delivery of the program this year,...
Jann Mylet
Dec 08, 2020
The Forum's President & CEO Kameron Perez-Verdia recently spoke at the Association of Alaska School Boards' 67th annual conference. In this recorded address, he makes the case for...
Jann Mylet
Nov 12, 2020
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