Meet Alice Qannik Glenn and Jacquii Lambert Thursday 11/10
This Thursday, November 10 from 7 - 8 pm, the Cama'i Club along with KANA Prevention is hosting a Meet & Greet for Alice and Jacquii, two Alaska Native storytellers & entrepreneurs. Alice Qannik Glenn hosts the Alaska-famous podcast Coffee and Quaq, and Jacquii Lambert is the creative force behind the multimedia company Native Time. KANA Prevention has brought them to Kodiak to host the Scuttlebutt Storytelling Workshop, a youth version of Galley Tables for grades 9 -12.
The evening reception is open to the public, and will take place in the Campus Center Lobby. Everyone is invited!
Call 907-486-1276 or email epeufemio@alaska.edu for more information
Alice Qannik Glenn is an Iñupiaq born and raised in Utqiaġvik, Alaska. She hosts and produces her own podcast show called Coffee & Quaq to celebrate and explore contemporary Native life in urban Alaska. Her episodes play on several public radio stations and her work has been featured in Alaska Magazine, Anchorage Daily News, AK Humanities FORUM Magazine, CBC Unreserved Radio, and more. She serves on the board of AK Native Media Group, Women's Power League of AK, the Anchorage Public Library Advisory Board and she is one-third of Native Time, a collaborative media platform that highlights the real Alaskan experience through multi-media productions. Currently, Alice is working as a Special Assistant to the President of Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) which is the largest statewide Native organization in Alaska.
In 2021, she was nominated by the Pulitzer Center for the Robert F. Kennedy journalism award in radio and earned a first place Columbia Journalism Review’s Covering Climate Now award for the special Coffee & Quaq series AK Natives on the Front Line which highlights the adaptability and resilience of Iñupiat in the face of climate change.
She received her bachelor’s degree in aerospace studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2014. Alice enjoys diversifying her career path and is passionate about providing accurate and authentic Alaska Native representation in media.
Jacquii (with a Cue) Lambert is a creative entrepreneur focused on wellness, education and media representation. She uses her digital platform to raise dialogue on Native identity, cultural mindfulness and self-expression. She provides both organizational and personal guidance on generational trauma and decolonized mental health. Jacquii is 1/3 of Native Time, a collaborative multi-media project that recently launched Village City, a youth-focused campaign on the spectrum of Indigenous experiences across the state. She is currently working on re-launching a self-published magazine, recently called The Qargizine. Jacquii also serves on the See Stories board as the treasurer .