Alaska Common Ground

Young Alaskans’ Panel

• Maka Monture, Indigenous Fellow at Alaska Center for the Environment
• Xavier Mason, President, NAACP Youth Panel
• Vika Morozova, President of Anchorage AYEA chapter, Alaska Youth for Environmental Action

Closing Discussion: What will we do? Discussion among all panelists and audience, facilitated by moderator, Libby Roderick.

Wrap up Cliff Groh, Chair Alaska Common Ground.

Alaska Citizens’ Panel

• Shaina Kilcoyne, Renewable Energy Alaska Project
• George Donart, Citizens Climate Change Lobby
• Faith Gemmill, REDOIL, Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands

UAA Public Administration Graduate Students present

• Carla Burkhead: Climate Change Driven Wildfire and Updating the Community Wildfire Protection Plan
• Russell Streif: Strengthening Elementary School Climate Change Curriculum

• Ethan Berkowitz, Mayor of Anchorage
• Beth Wythe, Mayor of Homer
• Reggie Joule, Former Mayor of NW Borough

UAA PADM Grad Students

• Robert Onders: Climate Change and Vector-Borne Disease – Adam Schoffstall: Principles of Sustainable Land Use and the Formation of an Alaska Commission on Sustainable Development – Lane Smith: Glenn Highway and Emissions Reduction Alaska State Policy Makers’ Panel
• Larry Hartig, Commissioner of the Alaska Dept. of Environmental Conservation
• Craig Fleener, Special Assistant on Arctic Policy, Governor’s Office
• Kate Troll, Member of Gov. Palin’s Mitigation Advisory Group (download PowerPoint presentation)

Lessons learned from climate change action plans and strategies in the Western states: what has worked and has not worked.

Bill Ross, Former Alaska DEC Commissioner, Principal of Ross Strategic