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Peak Trust Company has announced a $10,500 donation to the University of Alaska Southeast’s
(UAS) Senator Ted Stevens Legislative Internship Program, as the first part of a broader
commitment to support the program over the next five years. The program seeks to educate
students about politics and public policy, as well as prepare them for careers in
public service. Today, much of Alaska’s political sector is drawn from the ranks of
former UAS legislative interns.
The UA State Legislative Internship Program is unique in the UA system. It admits
around ten students each year from all over the state and includes an economically,
as well as ethnically diverse student body. The program also provides skilled labor
to the legislature and channels bright, capable young people into a life of public
service. Roughly twenty-six percent of current legislative staff, including numerous
legislative chiefs of staff, are former UA Legislative interns.
Contact: Keni Campbell
Wayne Price, Tlingit Master Carver from Haines, Alaska, returns to the University
of Alaska Southeast (UAS) as faculty for Northwest Coast Arts. He will be teaching
courses in carving as well as Northwest Coast Indigenous Formline Design. UAS Chancellor
Karen Carey remarked, “We are so excited to have Wayne join UAS again. His work is
outstanding and the students learn so much from him. He is so kind and caring about
his students that they not only learn about carving but also the culture and language.”
Price is an accomplished Alaska Native artist and is a member of the Wooshkeetaan
clan. He has carved over 30 traditional and non-traditional totems. He has been carving
since 1971, and has been an apprentice under other master carvers and artists, including
Ed Kasko, Leo Jacobs, and John Hagen. His art is featured throughout the world.
Contact: Keni Campbell
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