AUUF Podcasts

Amy Hetzler is National Volunteer Program manager for Compassion and Choices, a nonprofit organization working to improve patient rights and individual choice at the end of life, including access to medical aid in dyin

Stuart Hirai grew up as a Sansei — 3rd generation Japanese American — in eastern Oregon, where Nisei mentors who had served in the famed 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team were instrumental in shaping his life. The Hirais were one of 350 families moved to eastern Oregon in June 1942 as laborers in the first internment camp established as a result of President Franklin Roosevelt’s infamous Executive Order 9066. “Stu” graduated from Oregon State University and received his Master of Science degree in Hydraulic Engineering from Colorado State University. He worked for 35 years with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and participated in the Senior Executive Fellowship Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Stu is a member of numerous historical and educational organizations. He has made presentations at incarceration camp pilgrimages about the Nisei soldiers from those camps, conducted tours, and spoken at WWII seminars about the Nisei soldiers who served in the Pacific and Europe. Stu is writing a book featuring his Nisei mentors who were in the camps, the military, and resisters during the tumultuous times after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. ​

The slides can be found here - https://www.akwebguy.com/AUUF/AUUF_Sunday_Program_20220220/#1

Stuart Hirai grew up as a Sansei — 3rd generation Japanese American — in eastern Oregon, where Nisei mentors who had served in the famed 100th Infantry Battalion and 442nd Regimental Combat Team were instrumental in shaping his life. The Hirais were one of 350 families moved to eastern Oregon in June 1942 as laborers in the first internment camp established as a result of President Franklin Roosevelt’s infamous Executive Order 9066. “Stu” graduated from Oregon State University and received his Master of Science degree in Hydraulic Engineering from Colorado State University. He worked for 35 years with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and participated in the Senior Executive Fellowship Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Stu is a member of numerous historical and educational organizations. He has made presentations at incarceration camp pilgrimages about the Nisei soldiers from those camps, conducted tours, and spoken at WWII seminars about the Nisei soldiers who served in the Pacific and Europe. Stu is writing a book featuring his Nisei mentors who were in the camps, the military, and resisters during the tumultuous times after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. ​

The slides can be found here - https://www.akwebguy.com/AUUF/AUUF_Sunday_Program_20220220/#1

Amy Hetzler is National Volunteer Program manager for Compassion and Choices, a nonprofit organization working to improve patient rights and individual choice at the end of life, including access to medical aid in dying. Before taking this position in 2018, she worked with the organization in Montana to resist legislative efforts to outlaw activities relating to providing medical aid in dying, and then after joining the C&C staff, she moved to Denver and was the field director for the successful (65%) Yes on Colorado Prop 106 campaign. Before joining C&C Amy honed her fundraising, PR, organizational and volunteer management skills for over a decade while working with the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, and with the American Heart Association raising funds to support public education about heart disease in western Montana. Amy lives in Missoula with her Jack Russell Chihuahua Sadie and her husband Robert, and spends her free time hiking, reading, gardening and doing jigsaw puzzles.

The slides can be found here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgcquqmckzxoihn/Compassion%26ChoicesPresentationAUUF.pdf?dl=0

Margo Bellamy is President of the Anchorage School Board. A career educator, she has spent over forty years in education working as clerk typist, a teacher, librarian, assistant principal, principal, executive director, mentor, and trainer. During her two-year tenure on the Anchorage School Board, Margo has also served as Clerk, Communication Committee Chair, and Vice-President. Margo is an Adjunct Professor in the UAA Educational Leadership Program and serves on the board of directors of the Alaska Children’s Trust and of the Alaska School Board Association. She is a member of the National School Board Association’s National Black Caucus, National Native American/Alaskan Native Caucus, and National Hispanic Caucus, the Clare House Advisory Council, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the national chapter of the NAACP, and other organizations. Margo is married and is the parent of two adult children, both ASD graduates; and grandparent to two grandsons who both attend school in the Anchorage School District.

Margo's slides can be found here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/af1buqp4ho53k39/1_16_22%20%20ASDSB%20%281%29.pdf?dl=0

ASD COVID testing sites can be found here - https://www.asdk12.org/Page/18301

ASD Social Studies Curriculum & national and AK State Standards cag. Before taking this position in 2018, she worked with the organization in Montana to resist legislative efforts to outlaw activities relating to providing medical aid in dying, and then after joining the C&C staff, she moved to Denver and was the field director for the successful (65%) Yes on Colorado Prop 106 campaign. Before joining C&C Amy honed her fundraising, PR, organizational and volunteer management skills for over a decade while working with the International Wildlife Film Festival in Missoula, and with the American Heart Association raising funds to support public education about heart disease in western Montana. Amy lives in Missoula with her Jack Russell Chihuahua Sadie and her husband Robert, and spends her free time hiking, reading, gardening and doing jigsaw puzzles.

The slides can be found here - https://www.dropbox.com/s/tgcquqmckzxoihn/Compassion%26ChoicesPresentationAUUF.pdf?dl=0

Reverend Summer Albayati (she/her) is a UU Muslim of Iraqi descent who has been playing the Arabic drum professionally since the age of 12. Rev. Summer is currently on the staff of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). She earned her Master’s in Divinity from Claremont School of Theology, and before coming to UUA she served most recently for over eight years as minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Kern County in Costa Mesa, California. In serving congregations, her focus was on transformation by emphasizing that a mission-focused congregation increases vitality, membership, commitment to justice and love. Rev. Summer co-hosts a podcast with her son called “The Bayat Beat,” a commentary on society and culture, with an emphasis on social justice. She also has a chapter in the anthology, Centering: Navigating Race, Authenticity and Power in Ministry, published by Skinner House, and is currently working on a book regarding Islam, the Qur’an, and Liberation Theology. Rev. Summer serves as our primary contact in the Pacific Western Region of the UUA.

For more about Rev. Summer, go to: https://www.uua.org/offices/people/summer-albayati

Reverend Summer Albayati (she/her) is a UU Muslim of Iraqi descent who has been playing the Arabic drum professionally since the age of 12. Rev. Summer is currently on the staff of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). She earned her Master’s in Divinity from Claremont School of Theology, and before coming to UUA she served most recently for over eight years as minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Kern County in Costa Mesa, California. In serving congregations, her focus was on transformation by emphasizing that a mission-focused congregation increases vitality, membership, commitment to justice and love. Rev. Summer co-hosts a podcast with her son called “The Bayat Beat,” a commentary on society and culture, with an emphasis on social justice. She also has a chapter in the anthology, Centering: Navigating Race, Authenticity and Power in Ministry, published by Skinner House, and is currently working on a book regarding Islam, the Qur’an, and Liberation Theology. Rev. Summer serves as our primary contact in the Pacific Western Region of the UUA.

For more about Rev. Summer, go to: https://www.uua.org/offices/people/summer-albayati