BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN TZID:America/Anchorage X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Anchorage BEGIN:VEVENT UID:229@alaskaworldaffairs.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Anchorage:20170308T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Anchorage:20170308T190000 DTSTAMP:20231222T085241Z URL:https://alaskaworldaffairs.org/archived-events/worldmatters-intercultu ral-alaska/ SUMMARY:WorldMatters - "Intercultural Alaska: Celebrating Diversity & Conne cting through Stories" A story evening in the spirit of Arctic Entries DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin us at 5:30pm for a social mixer with our featured stor ytellers prior to the program start at 6:00pm. Beverages will be available for purchase during the event and social hour. Please plan to arrive earl ier if you plan to eat food prior to the program or plan to try 49th State Brewing Co's delicious food after the discussion.\n\n\n\n\nMeet our Story tellers...\n\nAmanda Dale\nAmanda is happy to be back home in Anchorage af ter nine years abroad. She is eager to get caught up on local politics\, t ry frisbee golf\, and finally learn how to ski. She is inspired by reading \, writing\, languages\, and people.\n\nSophia Lee\nSophia Lee is original ly from Seoul\, South Korea\, but has called Anchorage as home since 1995. She received her Bachelor in Civil Engineering at UAA in 2012\, and has b een practicing Civil/Structural engineering ever since. Currently Sophia w orks as Civil Engineer for the US Air Force at JBER. She is very passionat e about Engineering and is involved in many organizations that promote and engage in STEM outreach efforts in Anchorage. Sophia likes to spend her s pare time reading\, cooking and introducing Korean foods to friends\, enjo ying the beauty of Alaskan outdoor through hiking and kayaking in summer\, and attempted photographing at northern lights in winter times.\n\nOMead Rahmanian\nOMead Rahmanian is originally from Iran but called Anchorage ho me since 2010. He moved to California one and a half months before the lat e Shah's regime was toppled and Komeini took power in 1979.\n\nAs a Baha'i he was barred from higher education and migrated to the US to continue hi s dreams. After finishing his undergraduate degree in electrical engineeri ng from UC San Diego and working in the engineering field he married the l ove of his life\, Parisa\, who is also Persian. He decided with the encour agement of his wife\, who just had begun dental school\; he can pursue his dreams to enter into the health field and resumed his higher education in Chiropractic School. Love of humanity now had a larger and more meaningfu l scope for him\; that he could also serve their health needs. After pract icing in San Diego for 12 years and searching 14 states To find quality li fe for their children NAVA and NaVead\, Alaska won and they sold their res pective practices and moved here to start from scratch their life in the l ast frontier. They call their trips to the Southern California with the tr affic\, population and pollution their Thanksgiving Trips- they give thank s that they live in Anchorage and not there!\n\nThey are both intently and intensely involved in service to the inhabitants of the city and are buil ding neighborhoods alongside others that are spiritually based\, socially cohesive community life\; welcoming to all.\nHe loves spending time with t he family\, in the outdoors\, loves to have multicultural friends over for Persian tea\, cuisine and Persian dance and of course international dance . He took up photography of nature in Alaska and believes that "in Alaska\ , you get to appreciate the moment because the next moment is not the same moment\; so you better capture this moment"\n\nTimothy Williams\nBorn and raised in Fairbanks\, Alaska\, Timothy is 26 years old. He was an archaeo logist for eight or so years and currently works at UPS. Timothy loves pla ying soccer\, eating food\, and traveling\, of course. He considers himsel f very fortunate to have traveled to a number of places in his lifetime.\n \nSvaja Worthington\nAlthough retired from full-time teaching of English a t UAA\, Svaja still likes to teach occasionally as she will be doing this summer and coming Fall for UAA at JBER. She also enjoys substituting both in Alaska and New Mexico. Svaja feels being around young people can be ene rgizing\, and academia has been a constant in her life since she started t o pretend teach and to grade pretend papers as a child. Besides\, it gets her off the couch\, as they now say "Sitting is the new smoking" especiall y for the elderly. Svaja continue to translate her grandfather's letters a nd Lithuanian poetry and to aspire to write about both as well as to keep informed about what's happening in Lithuania as Honorary Consul in Alaska. She is also the granny of 18 grandchildren\, and loves to travel having b een on 3 European river cruises within the past year.\n\n \;\n\n\n\nTh e WorldMatters program series is made possible thanks to the support of BP .\n\nWe also very much appreciate the support and guidance of our communit y partners. Visit the WorldMatters page to learn more about the partner or ganizations and contact Deputy Director Alyssa Bish to get involved!\n\n&n bsp\;\n\nThe podcast for this event is available through Alaska Public Med ia\, listen in here. 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