AUUF Podcasts

Dermot Cole has worked as a newspaper reporter, columnist and author in Alaska for more than 40 years. For two decades he wrote a daily column for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner while also penning several history books. More recently he served as a political reporter and columnist at the Alaska Dispatch News. Since the paper was sold, he’s continued working as a journalist through his political blog, “Reporting from Alaska” – where he’s broken several exclusive and important stories regarding the Dunleavy administration.

Rev. Shelley Page is the AUUF interim minister.

A Celebration of Easter with story, song, and ritual, recounting the ancient stories about Jesus of Nazareth and how they continue to touch our lives today.

Rev. Shelley Page is the AUUF interim minister.

A Celebration of Easter with story, song, and ritual, recounting the ancient stories about Jesus of Nazareth and how they continue to touch our lives today.

George Gee is an artist, author, barista – and co-owner of Side Street Espresso in Downtown Anchorage. As a teenager in Texas, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison for resisting the draft. After his release, he attended college in Texas for a while, earned a graduate degree in economics at the University of Washington, then worked as an economic consultant in Alaska for 22 years. A few decades ago, Gee and his wife Deborah Seaton purchased their coffee shop on G Street – where he’s worked ever since, serving up lattes, befriending the homeless and finding an hour each day to draw an original portrait.

Sen. Tom Begich is a Democratic member of the Alaska State Senate, an accomplished musician – and a good friend to Side Street Espresso owner George Gee. He has represented District J since January 2017.

George Gee is an artist, author, barista – and co-owner of Side Street Espresso in Downtown Anchorage. As a teenager in Texas, he was sentenced to 16 months in prison for resisting the draft. After his release, he attended college in Texas for a while, earned a graduate degree in economics at the University of Washington, then worked as an economic consultant in Alaska for 22 years. A few decades ago, Gee and his wife Deborah Seaton purchased their coffee shop on G Street – where he’s worked ever since, serving up lattes, befriending the homeless and finding an hour each day to draw an original portrait.

Sen. Tom Begich is a Democratic member of the Alaska State Senate, an accomplished musician – and a good friend to Side Street Espresso owner George Gee. He has represented District J since January 2017.

How will AUUF be living into its mission? What directions emerged from the Fellowship to the Future gathering on April 6? 

How will AUUF be living into its mission? What directions emerged from the Fellowship to the Future gathering on April 6? 

Lori Townsend is the News Director for the Alaska Public Radio Network. She got her start in broadcasting at the age of 11 as the park announcer of the fastpitch baseball games in Deer Park, Wisconsin and has worked in print and broadcast journalism for more than 18 years. Radio brought her to Alaska, where she worked as a broadcast trainer for Native fellowship students at Koahnic Broadcasting and later helped co-found the non-profit Native Voice Communications.

Nellie Moore is the former host and producer of National Native News and has been involved in Alaska journalism for nearly four decades. An Inupiaq Eskimo born in Kotzebue, she’s the recipient of numerous journalism honors, including the 2001 Wassaja Award, the highest honor awarded by the Native American Journalists Association, for “extraordinary service to Native Journalism.”

Hayden Nevill is a former president of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fairbanks as well as a former president of the UUA Pacific Northwest District. He is the founder of Gender Pioneers, Fairbanks's transgender support and advocacy group. A career veterinarian, Nevill was a key advocate of a proposed ordinance to protect the Fairbanks LGBTQ population from discrimination – an initiative that was recently approved by the Fairbanks Assembly but then vetoed by the Fairbanks mayor. Today he’ll share the next steps in fighting those opposed to LGBTQ rights and what it means to be a committed Unitarian Universalist ally.

Unitarian Universalists have a strong history of advocating for LGBTQ civil rights. Marriage equality has been achieved, and despite recent events in Fairbanks, equal protections may not be far behind. Is that the end of the story, or is there more work for us to do to achieve a fully inclusive society?

Hayden Nevill is the former president of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fairbanks as well as a former president of the UUA Pacific Northwest District. He is the founder of Gender Pioneers, Fairbanks's transgender support and advocacy group. A career veterinarian, Nevill was a key advocate of a proposed ordinance to protect the Fairbanks LGBTQ population from discrimination – an initiative that was recently approved by the Fairbanks Assembly but then vetoed by the Fairbanks mayor. Today he’ll share the next steps in fighting those opposed to LGBTQ rights and what it means to be a committed Unitarian Universalist ally.