Protecting our Mamaqs (Mamaqs being the Yupik word for breast) is a toolkit on environmental links to breast cancer and how to reduce exposure/prevention of breast cancer. The toolkit includes facts about cancer-causing and hormone disrupting chemicals that can contaminate traditional foods, air, water, and land of Alaska Native peoples, as well as household and personal care items.
In recent months, NEW has made an investment in its communications capabilities, bringing on a communications coordinator and senior communications consultant to assess NEW’s recent communications efforts, to improve communication processes and materials, and to begin the process of creating a marketing and communications plan for the organization. This report outlines accomplishments made during the past three months as well as communications goals we hope make progress toward in the coming months.
Published Stories
By Adam Ortega for NOISE magazine
Symbolizing a new beginning for the LGBTQIA2S+ abolitionist organization Black & Pink, Dominique Morgan used giant scissors for the ribbon cutting at their new headquarters.
By Adam Ortega for NOISE magazine
The word “pig” has become synonymous with “police” in some circles. Its use in reference to police is highly polarizing with most police and their supporters calling the term derogatory and disrespectful.
Moderator for environmental health webinar series
In 2023, I was in charge of researching, recording, and distributing an environmental health webinar series titled CHE-Alaska. The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is an international partnership of individuals and organizations committed to addressing environmental impacts on human health across the lifespan.
This partnership explores the emerging science of environmental health, justice, and education relevant to the state of Alaska and its people. Coordinated by Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), CHE-Alaska works to inform health professionals, researchers, health-affected groups, government agents and other concerned citizens about environmental links to disease and disability.
Audio Stories