Youth program founder to discuss film

Submitted by Marmian Grimes
Phone: 907-474-7902
06/19/09

San Francisco pediatrician Nancy Iverson will be in Fairbanks Monday, June 22 for the 7 p.m. screening of the documentary film, "From the Badlands to Alcatraz."

The screening will take place in the Schaible Auditorium on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus and is free and open to the public.

The film chronicles five Lakota youths’ participation in the PATHSTAR Pine Ridge Alcatraz swim program. Iverson is co-founder and medical director of the program. She will be available to answer questions after the film.

For more information call 907-474-7021 or visit www.uaf.edu/summer.

CONTACT: UAF Summer Sessions at 907-474-7021 or via e-mail at summer@uaf.edu. Marmian Grimes, UAF public information officer, at 907-474-7902 or via e-mail at marmian.grimes@uaf.edu.

ON THE WEB: http://www.uaf.edu/summer/special-events/free-lecture-series/from-the-badlands-to-alca/