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So nice to see friends from Bethel

Thank you Dr. Amarok for your introduction

Welcome to Ana Hoffman

Such a lovely story

Please enter questions and/or comments in the Chat Box as you think of them!

What are the strategies you use to motivate and engage our Alaska Native Youths in AFN? What advantages do they see in this engagement?

Please raise your hand throughout the presentation as Ana would like to interact with us.

There’s a photograph of Margaret Nick Cooke in Bob Arnold’s book, Alaska Native Land Claims.

Wow!

Hello Ana, thank you for taking your time to talk with us. I’m wondering what you and AFN see as upcoming issues for Rural Alaska communities?

Thank you for sharing your interesting story with us! I love how you described how you got through your first few weeks. Very inspiring! And, excellent advice for anyone stepping up in their career!Can you talk a little more about how you and AFN are mentoring young Alaskans?

So true. Quyana

Thank you so much for sharing our experiences! As a follow up to the question regarding challenges for Rural Alaskan communities, do you see an opportunity for our institution to support our rural communities? If so, how can we support?

Thank you for those. We definitely agree that affordable broadband access is critical for our communities, even just reliable phone access is lacking and expensive.

Thank you. Such an important message.Connecting to culture fulfilling dreams!

Inspirational message and reminder to support kids in what they want to do. The reward will come later. Thank you.

Thank you!!

Yes! A great story on KNOM today.

Thank you so much once again.

I think we can all agree that English is one of the worst languages to learn!

Igamsi, Ana!

This was a wonderful way to spend an evening! Thank you!

Thank you!!! Great job Ana and Barb

Hahom, Ana and QasuGlana!

Thank you both so much.