Jane Angvik is a community planner, political consultant and longtime civic leader in Anchorage. In her 20s, she was selected as one of 11 people to serve on the 1975 Anchorage Charter Commission that unified the city and borough. In 1979 she was elected to the Anchorage Assembly and eventually became the first woman to chair the Assembly. In the 1990s she helped plan and develop the Alaska Native Heritage Center, then was appointed state director of the Division of Lands under Gov. Tony Knowles. She’s served on numerous non-profit boards of directors, including the Girl Scouts of Alaska, Standing Together Against Rape and the Alaska Women’s Political Caucus. Along with other members of the two-year-old "Alaska Women Ascend," a movement inspired by the 2017 Women's March on the Park Strip, she’s trained scores of female candidates on how to fund-raise and manage political campaigns. In 2014 she was named to the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame.