Löki Gale Tobin was elected in 2022 to represent District I (downtown Anchorage and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson) in the Alaska Senate. Born and raised in Nome, she is a University of Alaska Anchorage graduate and holds a master’s degree in rural development from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Peace Corps Master’s International Program, having served as a Youth Development Volunteer in Azerbaijan from 2008-2011. Currently, she's a PhD candidate at UAF; her research topic is focused on culturally responsive education. Löki has worked in marketing and communications for Alaskan nonprofits like Boys & Girls Clubs, Kawerak, and the Alaska Community Foundation. She was also a certified fundraiser for the Anchorage Museum. Löki met her mentor, Tom Begich, on one of his many trips to Nome, and eventually joined his legislative team in Juneau as Policy Director. Löki has worked to expand universal, voluntary pre-K across Alaska, protect renters and homeowners from predatory insurance practices, and recognize the resiliency and continued saliency of the Alaska constitution. She's an avid bicycle commuter and community volunteer.

Slides - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mk19ubvg54adnyn6e2vhb/2025AnchorageUU.pdf?rlkey=lewcem18w4uawhpekfxbvju8z&dl=0

email - Sen.Loki.Tobin@akleg.gov

Dr. Jennifer Schmidt works at the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Alaska, as an associate professor of Natural Resource Management and Policy. She has been at ISER since 2015, and before that was in Norway for a few years and Fairbanks since 2002. Jens research revolves around humans and the environment, which means her interests are broad. Currently she works on wildfire risk and resilience, food/water/energy security, and land use. Some of the tools she uses are spatial analysis, surveys, interviews, and workshops. Jen earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior and in Genetics and Cellular Biology of University of MinnesotaTwin Cities in 1999, and her Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2007.

For Dr. Schmidts CV, see https://iseralaska.org/people/name/jennifer-schmidt/

Slides - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/sxivkp8b8ns8lywc6l7x8/Living-with-Wildfire1.pdf?rlkey=mg8f46rciio59q2slhak24zxu&dl=0

There are video's associated with pages 2 & 28 of the PDF file. If you click on the images on those pages, the videos should open in a webbrowser tab or page. Let me know if you have questions.

Ken Blaylock has lived in Alaska for over 50 years. He served over 20 years in the military, earned a Bronze Star Medal from service in Iraq, and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. Ken has been a whistleblower on drugs, sexual assaults, and illegal expenditures of money that led to the removal of multiple senior personnel from the Alaska Army National Guard. He is a small business owner, running his own martial arts school, where he is an instructor. He is also a Certified Master Gardener, a beekeeper, and owns and operates a farm.

Jenny McNulty came to Alaska in 2021 to serve as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at University of Alaska Anchorage. Before that, she spent 25 years in big sky country, as a professor and administrator at University of Montana. She majored in both chemistry and mathematics at Providence College, graduating in 1985, then earned her master's degree in mathematics at Stony Brook University, and her Ph.D. in Mathematics in1993 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She taught for a number of years at University of Montana before transitioning to associate dean in UMs College of Humanities and Sciences in 2010. She held that position for eight years before becoming the interim dean and then transferring to UMs Western campus to serve as the interim provost for a year before accepting her current role at UAA. In 2018, she traveled to the University of Gondar in Ethiopia as a Fulbright Scholar, working with mathematicians there on curriculum design, mentoring a new group of female faculty with little prior teaching experience that the university had recently hired.

Slides - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pgy7s0admetbx7igmgozf/CAS-Overview-2025.pdf?rlkey=pbxspxj0qwczud6bb6oe5uu29&dl=0

Harlow Robinson is Founding Member of the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame. He has been involved with Healthy Futures since 2006, initially serving as an advisory board member, and since 2012 serving as its Executive Director. Prior to his current position, Harlow worked with at-risk youth for 15 years as a direct care staff, supervisor and manager. He has served on numerous boards and commissions and is on the Municipality of Anchorage Parks and Recreation Commission. An accomplished mountain runner, Harlow is involved in organizing numerous Alaska sporting events. Harlow earned a bachelors degree in Human Development and Family Studies from Evergreen State College in Washington in 1986, and a bachelors in Journalism from University of Alaska Fairbanks in 1992.

Slides - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kxyrzc509ot9w6dpp44oj/HF-Presentation-2025-v2.pdf?rlkey=2932htu1ycgvcisoefebx128p&dl=0

This Sunday the Forum celebrated National Poetry Month by hearing about and listening to poetry of Alaska Poet Laureate Tom Sexton, who died last month. Hear a variety of readers, and maybe a surprise or two.

choral music piece used to set five of Tom’s poems to music - https://libbylarsen.com/works/alaska-spring/

Poems read during choral music - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/32kfdncynhujnze5kvu2r/Five-Sexton-Poems.pdf?rlkey=d8nlzesz8c6jgjl2tp6yd7x2i&dl=0

Dr. Royce Fitts is a holistic and clinical psychotherapist, a licensed marriage and family therapist, a certified dream worker, and a liberal theologian with a doctorate in ministry. He is the author of The Geography of the Soul: Dreams, Reality and the Journey of a Lifetime, which blends memoir, political and social consciousness, and spiritual wisdom and explores relationships between physical and spiritual landscapes, personal and collective histories, and night-time dreams and how they weave together to reveal and heal the wounds of our lifetime. Originally from western Nebraska, he earned a Doctor of Ministry Degree in Pastoral Care and Counseling from Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis in 1992, was a Clinical Fellow in the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, and is ordained and certified as a Dream Work Minister and Facilitator through the Marin Institute for Projective Dream Works. He is in Alaska for a year on special assignment at JBER as a Military and Family Life Counselor.

Slides (there are just 2) - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d2kdpl30s9weqg099gsdc/RoyceForum.pdf?rlkey=vz4ci52jxpx6xph5gjqrdv981&dl=0