Our 3rd annual Women's Leadership Panel is back! Please join us for our first in person WLP, on Thursday, May 18 for an exciting discussion on inclusivity, our diverse community, and the impact this has on our personal and professional lives.

Anchorage is one of the most diverse cities in the country. Over 110 languages are said to be spoken in the walls of some Alaska schools. Our community hosts people of many races, ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultures, and economic positions.

Organizations have the power to impact people outside of our own experiences. How do we ensure our voices come together to economically enrich our community?

The 2023 Women’s Leadership Panel seeks to address these important issues and delve into the critical role of diversity and inclusivity in building a thriving community.

Panelists:

• Angela Cox — VP, External Affairs Rasmuson Foundation
• Alice Qannik Glenn — Host, Producer, Owner, Coffee & Quac Podcast
• Erin Keeling — Volunteer Coordinator, Alaska Center for the Performing Arts
• Marie Husa — Personal Life & Leadership Coach

Moderated by:

• Marilyn Alvarenga — Executive Director, Frontier Tutoring

3:30-4:00pm Doors Open

4:00-5:30pm Program

5:30-6:30pm Networking & Happy Hour

Please note this event is open TO ALL. While our panel is comprised of women to lift up female voices in our community, we encourage folks of all gender identities and representations to attend.

$25 AMA Members

$40 Non-Members

ATTN: AMA MEMBERS — An event-specific coupon code will be emailed to you (the email associated with your membership) to ensure you receive member pricing. If you have any questions about this, please reach out to [email protected].

Non-Members — If you are interested in becoming an AMA Member, please reach out to us at [email protected].

MEET OUR PANELISTS

Angela Cox — VP, External Affairs Rasmuson Foundation

Angela Cox is vice president of external affairs at Rasmuson Foundation, a position she’s held since June 2017. She oversees communication and events, does public policy work and helps connect national funders to Alaska organizations. She also leads efforts to bring diverse community members and their perspectives to the center of the Foundation’s work, including as executive producer of the Black in Alaska media project.

Her experience spans nonprofit, corporate and philanthropic sectors with a focus on storytelling, relationship-making and community-building.

Angela received her master’s degree in public administration from New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a bachelor’s degree from Washington State University’s Murrow School of Communication. She serves on the boards of Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation, Iḷisaġvik College Foundation and Media Impact Funders. Her recognitions include being named a member of the Alaska Journal of Commerce Top 40 under 40 and a German Marshall Memorial Fellow in 2020.

Angela is from Utqiaġvik, Alaska; she is an enrolled tribal member of the Native Village of Barrow.

Alice Qannik Glenn — Host, Producer, Owner, Coffee & Quac Podcast

Alice Qannik Glenn is an Iñupiaq born and raised in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. She hosts and produces her own podcast show called Coffee & Quaq to celebrate and explore contemporary Native life in urban Alaska. Her episodes play on several public radio stations and her work has been featured in Alaska Magazine, Anchorage Daily News, AK Humanities FORUM Magazine, CBC Unreserved Radio, and more. She serves on the board of AK Native Media Group, Women's Power League of AK, the Anchorage Public Library Advisory Board and she is one-third of Native Time, a collaborative media platform that highlights the real Alaskan experience through multi-media productions.

In 2021, she was nominated by the Pulitzer Center for the Robert F. Kennedy journalism award in radio and earned a first place Columbia Journalism Review’s Covering Climate Now award for the special Coffee & Quaq series AK Natives on the Front Line which highlights the adaptability and resilience of Iñupiat in the face of climate change. 

She received her bachelor’s degree in aerospace studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2014. Alice enjoys diversifying her career path and is passionate about providing accurate and authentic Alaska Native representation in the media.

Erin Keeling — Volunteer Coordinator, Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

Erin K. Keeling, Volunteer Coordinator at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, is a lifelong Alaskan with three generations of roots in the Southcentral region. She started her professional journey at age 11, working on a farm in her hometown of Palmer.

Life has allowed Erin a wide variety of work experiences. After studying business and elementary education at the University of Alaska Anchorage, Erin went on to work as a chef on the train, as an active parent in local schools, a property caretaker, a small business co-owner and doing sales and design work. 

Erin raised her two daughters, now adults and married, in Anchorage and is always planning her next trip to visit her grandson in Washington State. 

Few things make Erin happier than her family, traveling (Dublin, Ireland being a top-tier favorite), browsing art galleries, and hiking the mountain trails outside her cabin door.

Passionate about people, whether at work or at play, fostering a connection with people in the spirit of community is of utmost importance to Erin.

Marie Husa — Personal Life & Leadership Coach

Marie Husa values equality, connection, and personal growth. Marie sees herself as a “people noticer,” and believes that we are here to lift ourselves and each other up, that we all have it in us to choose how we want to see others and the world around us, and that our lives and gifts are meant to be shared. 

Marie’s personal values are reflected in her personal career. She is a Personal Life and Leadership Coach where she helps people find and use the power of their thoughts in creating the life they want. Marie holds professional certification from the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching and the International Coaching Federation. She worked for the US Postal Service for 17 years, with the last 8 as Human Resources Specialist. Marie also worked for the Municipality of Anchorage for 17 years in various departments – among them as Training Officer for the Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility and, most recently, as an Investigator for the Anchorage Equal Rights Commission where she investigated complaints of discrimination. Marie is a member and past-President/past-board member of Alaska Federation of Filipino Americans, a Filipino organization in Anchorage. She is an alumni of Leadership Anchorage, focusing her group project on a short 20-minute film on racism.

Marie was born in Manila, Philippines and arrived in Anchorage on a cold day in November 1984 and has lived in Anchorage since. She lives with her husband, Kevin, and has two adult daughters - Emily, and Jessica. She and her husband share their home with three canine kids: Sandy Mae (16), Lucy Ren (5), and Ruby Rose (4).

Marilyn Alvarenga

Marilyn Alvarenga is Executive Director of Frontier Tutoring, where she aspires to empower and engage with the future leaders of Alaska. She joined Frontier Tutoring from Northern Compass Group, an Anchorage-based consulting firm, where she served as Marketing Director and Associate Consultant, assisting client marketing departments with strategic communications and marketing.

She serves as President of the American Marketing Association Alaska Chapter, immediate-past chair of the Leadership Anchorage advisory board at the Alaska Humanities Forum, and former commissioner of the Anchorage Arts Advisory Commission. In her free time, Marilyn enjoys films and photography, as well as traveling.

Marilyn grew up in Anchorage and attended East Anchorage High School. She holds a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Alaska Anchorage, along with a certificate in digital marketing from Columbia Business School. Marilyn was named to the 2020 Top Forty Under 40 cohort by the Alaska Journal of Commerce.