Rosey Robards is also the director of Alaska Teen Media Institute, where teens produce a monthly, public-affairs radio show, podcasts and multimedia content. You might recognize her name from publications such as the Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Press and The Northern Light. She worked at the ADN as an Interactive Content Producer and currently serves as an Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism board member.

Victoria Barber works with Alaska Press Club on development and sustainability. Her most recent journalism position was features editor at ADN. She’s lived and traveled around the state as an editor and reporter for several rural Alaska newspapers—including Dutch Harbor, The Arctic Sounder in Barrow/Kotzebue, The Tundra Drums in Bethel and the Seward Journal. In Anchorage, she was editor for the Anchorage Press from 2011-2012. Barber was a 2010 Logan Science Journalism fellow and a finalist for the international Knight Fellowship award at MIT.

Victoria Petersen is a content producer for Alaska Press Club. She is a freelance journalist covering food, lifestyle, climate and other science stories for The New York Times, High Country News and other outlets. From 2021 to 2022, she was a reporting fellow for The New York Times food desk. Prior to that, she worked as a digital producer for KTVA-11 News in Anchorage, an editorial intern at High Country News and an education and local government reporter at the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai.

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Julia O’Malley is a freelance journalist who writes about food, politics, the environment and culture in Alaska. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and National Geographic among other publications. Before going freelance, she was a reporter and columnist for the Anchorage Daily News for nine years.

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Theo Greenly is the Senior Reporter at KUCB, the public radio station in Unalaska. He covers Aleutian communities all across the chain, from Sand Point to Attu. His byline appears in the Los Angeles Times, Anchorage Daily News and NPR, among others. Before becoming a journalist, he was a bartender. Ask him to make you a drink sometime.

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Angela Denning is the Regional News Director for CoastAlaska where she works with half a dozen public radio newsrooms. She’s been a journalist in rural Alaska for over 20 years. In 2000, she started at the Tundra Drums newspaper in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta where she traveled to villages throughout the region. In 2002, she moved on to News Director at KYUK in Bethel where she stayed for 12 years. For the last decade, she’s been working in Southeast at KFSK in Petersburg and now as the regional news director. Over the years, she’s also been a deckhand on a commercial fishing boat and mushed and raced sled dogs.

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Eric Sowl is the Chief Photographer of Alaska’s News Source – KTUU-TV & CH5 CBS. He grew up in Anchorage and attended the University of Alaska – Fairbanks. He has worked at KTUU-TV for over thirty years where he has covered news all over the state and the world. In 2018, Eric was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle in recognition of his contributions to the broadcast industry.

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Sage Smiley is news director for KYUK in Bethel, Alaska, serving more than 50 villages in an area the size of Illinois with daily news in English and Yup’ik. She’s worked with audio since she was a teenager at radio stations from Alaska to Amman and is passionate about sound-rich storytelling, rural radio and community-centered journalism. When not slinging a shotgun microphone around town, she can likely be found in or around a body of water. 

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Kirsten Dobroth is the managing editor of the Alaska Desk at Alaska Public Media. She previously covered Alaska’s commercial fishing and seafood industry as a senior reporter for Undercurrent News. Before that, she was the news director at the public radio station KMXT in Kodiak. She got her start in radio at Aspen Public Radio in Colorado. She currently lives in Kodiak, and enjoys hiking, snowboarding and beachcombing with her two dogs.

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Vicky Ho is the managing editor of the Anchorage Daily News, where she helps manage the content and day-to-day operations of the newsroom across all platforms. She’s also worked as a coach in the Poynter Institute’s Table Stakes program, helping local news organizations transition to more sustainable digital publishing models. Vicky was the evening editor at a daily newspaper in Colorado before joining the ADN in 2015, and she’s an avid skier and hiker who’s proud to call Alaska home.

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Lynne Snifka is an associate professor in the University of Alaska Fairbanks Science and Environmental Journalism Department. She’s spent more than 20 years in Alaska, and in addition to education has worked for public and commercial television, newspapers, websites, and magazines. She has also packed chocolates in a candy factory, sold cars, checked groceries, and scooped ice cream. 

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Young Kim was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska where he currently resides. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Public Communications from the University of Alaska Anchorage and has recently earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. He is also currently owner and operator of the photography center and studio, The Stoop.

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Jamie Diep is the education reporter at KTOO in Juneau, Alaska, where they cover all things youth-related on a local and statewide level. Jamie previously worked as the news director at KBBI in Homer, reporting on the southern Kenai Peninsula and Seward. Before that, Jamie reported and produced podcasts in Oregon and Taipei, Taiwan. When they’re not ears deep in editing audio, Jamie likes to hang out with Juneau’s curiously large oboe community and chase rare patches of sunshine.

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Lizzy Hahn is a junior pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Science and Environmental Journalism from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is the current Copy Editor of the UAF’s Sun Star. Born and raised in Nome, Lizzy has always enjoyed writing about the environment. In her free time, Lizzy can be found spending time with her friends, biking, mushing, making items in ceramics or just about anything outdoors!