Alumni
AYEA alums have gone on to do amazing things!
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Where are they now?
Verner Wilson III (Dillingham, ’04) – Outreach Coordinator, Nunamta Aulukestai ‘Caretakers of Our Lands’. Brown ’08 graduate in Environmental Studies.
Sasha Stortz (Sitka, ’03) – U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution. Lewis & Clark graduate, and Morris K. Udall Scholar
Heather Benz (Anchorage, ’06) – Senior in Earth Systems at Stanford; Intern with Stanford Office of Sustainability
Jeff Sheakley (Kasaan, ’03) – Environmental Planner/Watershed Coordinator, Organized Village of Kasaan
Erica Thompson (Kodiak) – Education Program Assistant, Prince William Sound Science Center
Tim Treuer (Anchorage, ’06) – Senior in Evolutionary Biology at Harvard
Jonas Parker (Sitka, ’01) - Hydrologist, OR Bureau of Land Management; currently works on stream, wetland and salmonid habitat restoration projects, collaborative forestry projects (public outreach and involvement), and oak woodland restoration (youth outreach and involvement with Oregon Conservation Corp and Northwest Conservation Corp).
Anna Barnwell (Anchorage, ’04) – M.A. Candidate, Globalization: Politics & Culture in Trondheim, Norway. B.A. in Environmental Studies from Colby College.
Milly Josephson (Anchorage, ’06) – Junior at Columbia majoring in History and Hispanic Studies. This summer she will be co-editing a book of essays with a UAA professor.
Elsa Sebastian (Petersburg, ’08) – Wellesley College 2012; currently deferring for a semester to attend the Greenpeace Organizing Term, a semester long program designed to empower college students to become leaders/activists on their respective campuses.
Liz Dean (Anchorage, ’06) – Philosophy and Photojournalism major at UAA, but has taken two years off to work and travel. Currently works at the Alaska Center for the Environment.
Gavin Dixon (Anchorage, ’06) – Graduating from Chico State in May with a degree in Project Management, and minors in entrepreneurship and managing for sustainability. Assistant Sustainability Coordinator for the Associated Students at Chico State, and Director of the Konkow Organic Garden.
Adrian Ryan (Homer ’05) - Graduating from Yale this December with a degree in Linguistics.
Lauden Eller (Kasilof ’09) - Returning home from travels in Mexico, Central America, and Cuba.
Amanda Huff (Anchorage ’03) – Graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a degree in business and works at the Fairbanks Public Library. She is also a founding member of AYEA’s Statewide Advisory Group!
Bailey Arend (AYEA ’05) – Graduated from Whitman College (’10). He spent a summer in Switzerland learning permaculture design. As a Co-President for Whitmans Campus Climate Challenge he organized a group to go to Powershift ’09 in DC.
Kale Brewer (AYEA ’05)- is attending Portland State University pursuing a Community Development Major. She was AYEA’s Media and Technology Intern from 2006-2008!
Shannon Kuhn (AYEA ’05)-She graduated from the University of Montana in Missoula with a 
degree in Environmental Studies. Shannon is passionate about connecting youth empowerment with environmental equity and food justice.During college she studied human rights in Guatemala, wilderness leadership in New Zealand, food policy in Washington, DC. and alternatives to globalization in Chiapas, Mexico.
Robyn Brown (AYEA ’09)- After graduating from Dimond high she went on to Alabama A&M for her freshman year. She will continue her undergraduate study at University of Anchorage Alaska in fall 2010. Robyn is currently a canvasser for Alaska Center for the Environment.
Wiley Cason (AYEA ’09)- Wiley was the Fundraising Coordinator for AYEA in the summer of 2010. He is currently a student at UAA. In 2006 he worked as a Public Relations intern for AYEA, and as a Junior in high school chaired the Anchorage Chapter.
Marcus Welker (AYEA ’05)- Marcus is currently interning for the Anchorage Waterways Council, where he is developing an “Adopt-A-Stream” program to complete the requirements of his Masters of Science degree in Aquatic Resource Management from King’s College, University of London.
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