Featuring Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Commissioner William Streur, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation’s Carrie Collins, Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority’s Jeff Jessee, KTOO Public Media & 360 North’s Bill Legere and the Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness’s Scott Ciambor.
Public Affairs
Syria: From Struggle for Freedom to Humanitarian Crisis
CAUTION: This program contains images and descriptions of an active war zone that some viewers my find objectionable.
Radwan Ziadeh is an author, scholar and international policy expert with a focus on Syria. He is founder and director of the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria. He is also a co-founder and executive director of the Syrian Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C.
He gave a talk @360 on September 24, 2014.
Reporters’ Roundtable with Bill Walker & Byron Mallott
KTOO/360 North reporters hold a roundtable discussion with independent gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker and his running mate Byron Mallott. With Jeremy Hsieh, Casey Kelly and Jennifer Canfield.
Related article: Walker criticizes Parnell for missing 2009 Obama visit
Unrest in Southeast Asia: A Thai Activist’s Perspective
Sulak Sivaraksa is the founder of a number of social, humanitarian, ecological and spiritual movements and organizations in Thailand. He is an advocate for social and political change in his native country as well as on a global scale.
He gave a talk @360 on September 3, 2014.
Living with Substance Abuse – Town Hall Discussion
Living with Substance Abuse is the first in a series of A Roof town hall meetings to be held around the state. Panelists include: Mariya Lovishchuk with the Glory Hole shelter, Jennifer Brown with Rainforest Recovery, Bruce Van Dusen with Polaris House, Jeannette Lacey Dunn with Bartlett Regional Hospital, John Evans who is a Native Artist and Nancy Burke with the Alaska Mental Health Trust.
Spreading the Venezuelan Music Program El Sistema Worldwide
Tony Woodcock is President of the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston. The NEC just graduated its fifth class of Sistema Fellows. These Fellows are educated in Venezuela’s El Sistema music principles, which Tony will explain in his talk. The Fellows are creating and leading musical education centers for children throughout the United States and beyond. Lorrie Heagy, director of Juneau Alaska Music Matters (JAMM), was a member of the first class of Fellows, and has created a program here in Juneau that embodies the ideals of El Sistema. She and her program are nationally admired as leaders in the American movement.