Latest Anchorage Podcast Episodes
TRANS RIGHTS: Rep. Andrew Gray on garnering more support for Trans Rights
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 28, 2024 19:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsToday is the final episode in our series on Transgender Rights. I, Rep. Andrew Gray, explain the purpose of this series and broadcast the special order that I gave on the Alaska State House floor on April 17, 2024. It provides an olive branch to folks who may be on the other side with regards to...
TRANS RIGHTS: Dr. Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health (WPATH)
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 27, 2024 14:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDr. Marci Bowers is a pelvic and gynecologic surgeon with more than 32 years’ experience. She is the president of WPATH – the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. Her gender diverse work has been highlighted through appearances on Oprah, CBS Sunday Morning, Discovery Health and...
TRANS RIGHTS: Dr. Joshua Safer, author of the Endocrine Society Guidelines for the medical care of transgender patients
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 26, 2024 13:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDr. Joshua Safer is the executive director of the Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York. He is the founding medical director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at Boston University School of Medicine, and he was the inaugural president of the United...
TRANS RIGHTS: Becca Bernard, a lawyer, minister, and mom to a trans girl
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 25, 2024 08:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBecca Bernard is a former environmental lawyer and a Unitarian Universalist community minister based in Anchorage. She is also mom to two children, one of whom is trans. This episode is part of a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bills currently moving throu...
TRANS RIGHTS: David Leslie, an Inupiaq Sipiniq (Two-Spirit)
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 24, 2024 14:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDavid Leslie is an Inupiaq Sipiniq (Two-Spirit) living in Fairbanks. He is a frequent testifier against the anti-trans bills moving through the Alaska State House. We discuss his specific perspective as a queer Alaska Native man. To check out the book recommended by our guest, Yuuyaraq: The Way...
TRANS RIGHTS: Henry, a 15-year-old trans boy and his mom
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 23, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsHenry is a 15 year old trans boy. He and his mother are the guests today discussing their experience in Alaska. No last names will be given in the interest of their safety. This episode is part of a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bills currently moving thr...
TRANS RIGHTS: Retired Army 1st Sergeant Jessica Kalarchik on being trans
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 22, 2024 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsJessica Kalarchik was an Army First Sergeant who deployed with me and the Alaska Army National Guard’s 1-297th infantry battalion to Kosovo 2019-2020. 1st Sergeant Kalarchik presented as a very masculine man, and I never suspected that she was a trans woman. She was medically retired after 31 ye...
TRANS RIGHTS: An Air Force family raising a trans child
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 21, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe Banning family consists of: Lindsey, clinical psychologist, mom Charlie, age 15, non-binary trans masculine Ezzy, age 12, sister Earl, neuropsychologist in the Air Force at Elmendorf, dad This episode is part of a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bil...
TRANS RIGHTS: wildlife biologist Aaron Poe discusses being a father to a trans daughter in Anchorage
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 20, 2024 22:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAaron Poe has been a wildlife biologist in Alaska since 1998. He is the father of a trans daughter in the Anchorage School District, and today we discuss that experience. This episode is the first in a series on trans rights. The inspiration for these interviews is three bills currently moving ...
James Kaufman (R-Anchorage): AK State Senator for Abbott Loop and the Hillside
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 14, 2024 15:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAlaska State Senator James Kaufman represents the Abbott Loop and Hillside areas of Anchorage. Although in his teens and 20s he was a guitar player & song writer for several successful rock bands, James began earning real money as an aircraft mechanic in Houston, Texas. He quickly found himself ...
America's Farthest North Little Free Libraries
Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska - April 09, 2024 19:59 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 222 ratingsCorrespondent Ryan Peterson explores the little free libraries of Fairbanks and interviews their creators.
Reggie Joule: Kotzebue House Rep (1997-2012) & Northwest Arctic Borough Mayor (2012-2015)
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - April 07, 2024 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsReggie Joule of Kotzebue is a former Alaska State House Representative and the former Northwest Arctic Borough Mayor. He is listed in the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame as: “the greatest practitioner of the blanket toss in the long history of the World Eskimo Indian Olympics.” His skill in that Alas...
Sharon Gleason: Chief Judge of the US District Court for Alaska
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 30, 2024 16:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsJudge Sharon Gleason is the Chief Judge of the United State District Court for the District of Alaska. She was appointed by Barack Obama in 2012 after serving 11 years as a judge on the Alaska Superior Court. She is the first woman to serve as a federal judge for Alaska. On March 29, 2024, she...
Lisa Wawrzonek: Statewide Guardianship Compliance Officer on Alaska's Guardianship Crisis
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 23, 2024 20:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsWith over 20 years of experience in Alaska's guardianship system Lisa Warzonek has been our statewide guardianship compliance officer since the position was created four years ago. A guardian is a person that the court appoints to manage the affairs of another person. In spite of the sensational...
Mobile Home Owners Town Hall with Attorney Charles Ward, David Andrew, and Demetria Veasy
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 19, 2024 22:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThe Mobile Home Owner Town Hall Episode Today our show is about mobile home parks. As the state representative for house district 20, I have several mobile home parks in my district. Mobile home owners face unique challenges: they own their home but must rent the land on which their home sits. ...
Charisse Millett: Director of PSEA & former AK House Majority Leader
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 16, 2024 02:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsCharisse Millett is a born and raised Alaskan who represented the Abbott Loop area of Anchorage in the Alaska State House from 2009 to 2019. During her legislative career she served as both the House Republican majority and minority leaders. In this episode we discuss: growing up Alaska Native ...
Chelsea Foster & Bailey Stuart: Alaska Marijuana 101
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 10, 2024 18:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsChelsea Foster of Anchorage is a director on the board of the Alaska Marijuana Industry Association and a long-time cannabis advocate. She is COO for Birch Alaskan Naturals CBD, and a consultant for the Alaskan cannabis industry. She has successfully pursued regulatory and statuary changes for t...
Foster Care in Alaska: Angel Gonzalez, Mateo Jaime, Kxlo Stone, Anna Redmon, Sarah Lewis, & Abbey Redmon
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - March 03, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsFacing Foster Care in Alaska (FFCA) is a non-profit group made up of folks with lived experience in the foster care system. As former foster youth themselves, these individuals can offer expertise to make Alaska's system better from the inside out. Today on the show we hear from the most recent ...
Keri Ladner: author on Jerry Falwell, the Moral Majority, and QAnon
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - February 28, 2024 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsKeri Ladner is the author of the 2024 book End Time Politics: From the Moral Majority to QAnon. She earned her doctorate in Divinity from the University of Edinburgh and much of her doctoral research focused on researching the theological roots of Jerry Falwell, the co-founder of the Moral Maj...
EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: former AK House Rep Ivan Ivan (D-Akiak); Jena Crafton, Chair of the Governor's Council on Disabilities & Special Education
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - February 26, 2024 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsJena Crafton is the chair of the Governors Council on Disabilities and Special Education. She has been a vocal advocate for people with disabilities since she was young as Crafton has developmental disabilities herself. We discuss her childhood including how she learned about her own disabilitie...
EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: Ed Wesley & Shenee Williams, Shiloh Community Housing's planned Community Resource Center
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - February 18, 2024 17:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsEd Wesley was born in Bolivar County, Mississippi, on January 9, 1951. He moved to Fort Greeley, Alaska, in 1973 after being drafted into the Army. His wife joined him shortly thereafter and the two raised all five of their children here and the two have never lived outside Alaska since. He was ...
Ladder Dude!
Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska - February 18, 2024 00:01 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 222 ratingsDavid Rockney witnesses how a ladder truck can make a bad situation much worse and Jenn Jenkins’ friends think a ladder is going to literally eat her leg.
EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: Paul Peterson, Harvard Professor on Alaska Charter Schools
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - February 12, 2024 04:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsToday's episode is about Alaska's Charter Schools which were recently ranked #1 in the country. The lead author of the study is Dr. Paul Peterson of Harvard University. Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Govern...
EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: Shelley Hughes, AK State Senator on establishing a religious community in Hoonah & her journey into MatSu politics
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - February 05, 2024 13:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsAK State Senator Shelley Hughes of Palmer moved to Hoonah, Alaska, in the late 70s as a young adult to help establish a religious community with her parents. We talk about that experience, as well as her travels around Alaska with her husband and young family, and ultimately how she ended up inv...
EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: CJ McCormick, state house representative discusses life in Bethel, suicide, and partisanship
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - January 29, 2024 15:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsThis is an episode of East Anchorage Matters. Representative C. J. McCormick of Bethel is 26 years old and the youngest member of the Alaska State House. Prior to serving in the legislature, he served on city council and as vice mayor of Bethel. Bethel is the 8th largest city in Alaska with ju...
Squirrel, Squirrel, Bigfoot
Dark Winter Nights: True Stories from Alaska - January 27, 2024 17:44 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 222 ratingsHarper O’Brien’s grandfather gets scared by a squirrel in bear’s clothing, host Rob Prince discovers squirrels have an appetite for mushrooms and breaking and entering, and Glenner Anderson finds out why the Finding Bigfoot Reality TV show never finds Bigfoot.
Lesil McGuire: former AK state senator on partisanship, love, and leadership
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - January 22, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsLesil McGuire is a lifelong Alaskan, former state senator, women’s and rural rights advocate, and mother. This episode is the premier of season 2 of Rep. Gray's legislative podcast: EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS. Lesil lives in Anchorage and works as a consultant in the aerospace, technological innovat...
EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS: Lesil McGuire, former AK state senator on partisanship, love, and leadership
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - January 22, 2024 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsLesil McGuire is a lifelong Alaskan, former state senator, women’s and rural rights advocate, and mother. This episode is the premier of season 2 of Rep. Gray's legislative podcast: EAST ANCHORAGE MATTERS. Lesil lives in Anchorage and works as a consultant in the aerospace, technological innovat...
Beth Kerttula: former AK House Minority Leader
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - January 15, 2024 19:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsDaughter of Alaska Legend Jalmar "Jay" Kerttula -- the only person to ever serve as both speaker of the house and president of the senate -- Beth Kerttula is the former Director of the National Ocean Council, where she led the implementation of the United States National Ocean Policy, including ...
Ben Walker: 2018 Alaska Teacher of the Year
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray - January 11, 2024 15:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsBen Walker is a 7th grade science teacher at Romig Middle School, and he was also Alaska’s teacher of the year in 2018. Ben is on the show today because, after listening to some of East Anchorage Book Club's previous podcast episodes discussing the Alaska education system, he felt an important p...
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