international relations – Alaska Voices

Paths to the Arctic converge in coproduction

February 2, 2026

A Native Alaskan woman and and a man with dark hair smile at the camera in front of a photshopped background of mountains.

“A lot of what I’ve learned is the academic history of exploitation of communities in the Arctic. Iʼm trying to teach myself as much as I can such that when I’m in a position that I am leading a project, that I have input to make sure that things are done correctly” -Margaret Anamaq Rudolf

Building bridges with sea ice

September 7, 2020

“I think as humans, especially when it’s in our backyard, we want to feel like we have a process, that we have ownership in that, and we have agency to make our voices heard.”

Grad school files

August 31, 2020

“I thought environmental science was a really good way to connect people’s problems and Earth’s problems and learn about the physical world yet the social science world, too.”

Donning a flag for graduation

July 23, 2020

Jessie and Abraham smile at the camera in front of a photoshopped background of a grain field.

“If I were in Ethiopia right now, I would be in jail already, or probably I would be killed.”

Expanding scientific literacy beyond the research realm

July 16, 2020

Kathy and Matt smile at the camera in front of a photoshopped background of a river shrub-covered mountains.

“If the public who isn’t a scientist knows what we do and why, then we’ve done good in education.”

Bringing global experiences back home

June 22, 2020

Krista, a woman with pulled-back dark hair, and Arlo, a man with two lip piercings wearing a beanie, smile in front of a blueberry bush background.

“We were in Georgia, the Republic of Georgia, when they were being bombed. And all we had to eat for like six weeks straight was kasha, buckwheat.”

Remembering Randy, restoring the bison

April 30, 2020

“My mom always says this too, if you take a side profile of Randy, he looks just like a bison.”