Penny was raised in Sitka (the most beautiful town in the state, if you didn’t know!) and moved to Anchorage a year ago. Her university and graduate education as a Nanook and Hoya was split by a stint with the U.S. Peace Corps in Nicaragua, which was full of mangoes, hammocks and hard work down in the dirty grassroots. When she’s not working at her current nonprofit job, which combines her dual passions of Arctic issues and energy policy, you can find her teaching indoor cycling classes or making kombucha.