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Nearly 150 alumni and supporters packed the Fine Arts Building Recital Hall on the Anchorage campus to honor the most recent Alumni of Distinction while reconnecting with their hometown university and raising funds to benefit UAA programs and scholarships.

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Accounting alumna and 2024-25 Alumni of Achievement Maria Bourne is the president and CEO of Denali Universal Services. Under her leadership, the company expanded to over 1,100 employees across six states, with 30% of its business now operating outside of ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ.

Education leadership alumna and 2024-25 Alumni Humanitarian E. Ingrid Goodyear is the missing or murdered Indigenous persons regional coordinator for the Great Plains and ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ at the U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ. One of only five regional MMIP coordinators in the country, she works to address the disproportionately high rates of violence and disappearances that Indigenous people face in the United States.

General management alumna and 2024-25 Alumni Emerging Leader Iuliia Chepurko is the director of program and project standards at GCI. In this capacity, she standardizes project management methodologies across departments, ensuring that projects are executed with maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

The ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ Journal of Commerce released its annual list of the top young professionals in the state. Representing Anchorage, UtqiaÄ¡vik, Fairbanks, Juneau, Kodiak and Palmer, the 2025 Top Forty Under 40 recipients exemplify excellence in professional and community service.

The Anchorage ATHENA Society has announced its Class of 2025 inductees, which include UAA alumni Kate Consenstein, B.A. ’11; Melanie Osborne, B.A. ’96; and Jennifer Schrage, B.A. ’93.

Three new grants totaling $133K from the ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ Department of Education and Early Development will help UAA’s School of Education support apprentice educators in Kodiak, update apprenticeship coursework and launch a leadership initiative in partnership with the University of ÐÜèÔÚÏßÊÓƵ Southeast.

Maria Bourne, B.B.A. ’06; E. Ingrid Goodyear, M.Ed. ’11; and Iuliia Chepurko, M.B.A. ’15 will be honored at UAA’s Alumni of Distinction Celebration on March 18 at the Fine Arts Building Recital Hall

Winterfest 2025 is just around the corner! Bundle up, grab your friends and join us to celebrate all things Green & Gold. View the full line-up of events and activities happening on campus and throughout Anchorage, Feb. 20-March 1.