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 holds conservation easements on 58,412 acres in Bristol Bay and helped broker protection for 21,320 acres in the Wood Tikchik State Park. Tim came to Alaska in 1978 as a VISTA volunteer lawyer for Alaska Legal Services in Bethel. From 1980 to 1985, he was the city manager of St. Mary's, where he helped the Lower Yukon region revitalize Yup'ik Dancing. The Alaska Federation of Natives honored Tim with its Denali Award in 2019.

Tim's slides can be found here - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7dtqooc40zbsvajpmbzum/Sitka-SJ-Presentation-AUUF2.pdf?rlkey=jyljnsb121gs507mjf3aw5oz6&dl=0

Slide #7 is a video. To start the video, "click" on the speaker on the slide.

There is another video that Tim mentioned. It can be found here - https://aifg.arizona.edu/film/dancing-people-yupiit-yuraryarait

Mel Langdon Stewardship video - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l7cihifkirlwafcsnsd5m/04_February16_MelLangdon.mp4?rlkey=ipnxa7jz16tsqjztglneu2s4t&dl=0

Note that Mel's Stewardship video starts about 1'15" into the podcast and has been replaced (in the podcast) by 3 seconds of static.

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 alumna of Wonder Park Elementary, Wendler Jr. High School, and Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School. Her rich and diverse experience in nonprofit management and event production began at Anchorage Fur Rendezvous, where she became Events Manager. She has also worked at the State of Alaska-Child Support Division, Doyon Limited, and JJ Powers Public Relations. Erin's foray into organizing was serving as the statewide coordinator for the Recall Dunleavy campaign. She was instrumental in founding the Alaska Civics Academy, a program dedicated to promoting civic participation and understanding. She is an active contributor to the Alaska Coalition for Justice, with a specific focus on police reforms and the school-to-prison pipeline. Erin is also a board member of Alaskans for Fair Courts and serves on the steering committee of Alaska Women's Ascend and the planning committee of Juneteenth Anchorage.

Slides - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lxirurtkskflmhznupi2l/Alaskans-Take-A-Stand-Stand-UP-Alaska-Action-Team-2.8.pdf?rlkey=7ak92ddm0o8hm6gj6nrk0dk15&dl=0

Stan Up Alaska - https://standupalaska.org

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 administrator. As a stage director, he is best known for his inspired and engaging storytelling in diverse works ranging from Baroque to modern. He directed the internationally acclaimed film Gianni Schicchi for Opera Ithaca in 2020, which Opera Magazine heralded as the "deftest use... of Covid-era technology as part of modern operatic reality." He was announced as a 2021 recipient of the Ewing Arts Award, which celebrates the diversity and excellence of artists in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. In February 2023, his 2022 "moving, visually daring" (Opera News) Julia Child-inspired Hansel and Gretel film joined the Opera Philadelphia Channel and was subsequently streamed at a series of outdoor events for the company in September 2023.

Dennis AraShiro is a current member of the Fellowship and Executive Board President of the Japanese American Citizens League. His father served in the US Army during the American Occupation of Japan after World War II, where he met Dennis's mother. Because that time and place are the setting for the new Anchorage Opera production of Madama Butterfly, he advises the production.

Slideshow - https://www.dropbox.com/s/y0hv4nosct5tx40/February%202%20UU%20Presentation.m4v?dl=0