East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
The East Anchorage Book Club is an interview podcast where Alaskan leaders discuss politics and community issues.
Podcasting since 2021 • 245 episodes
East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Latest Episodes
Harriet Drummond: former Alaska State House Representative, Anchorage Assembly Member, & Anchorage School Board Member
Harriet Drummond was first elected to the Anchorage School Board in 1994 where she served for nine years. She then represented West Anchorage on the Anchorage Assembly, leaving that post when she was elected to the Alaska State House in ...
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Season 5
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Episode 59
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1:03:14
Elstun Lauesen: Alaska rural economic developer & democratic champion
Elstun Lauesen grew up in Alaska and after dropping out of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1970, he managed former Alaska State Senator Joe Josephson's campaign for the US Senate to replace Bob Bartlett who had died i...
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Season 5
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Episode 58
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40:41
Steve Williams: director of Diversion Programming at APD & former CEO of the Alaska Mental Health Trust
Steve Williams is the director of Diversions Programming at the Anchorage Police Department. The Diversion Program allows officers to offer offenders a path to drug treatment instead of charges ...
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Season 5
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Episode 57
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55:48
Anna Taylor: Immigration attorney & director of the Alaska Institute for Justice
Anna Taylor is the executive director of the Alaska Institute for Justice which is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of everyone living in Alaska regardless of immigration s...
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Season 5
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Episode 56
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31:19
Michael Livingston: Unangax̂ historian corrects the historical record of Benny Benson, designer of the Alaska state flag
Dr. Michael Livingston is an Unangax̂ historian. The Unangax̂ are the indigenous people of the Aleutian Islands, also known by the Russian-given name Aleut. For many years it was thought that Benny Benson designed the Alaska state...
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Season 5
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Episode 55
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1:12:55
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