While we’ve been airing our series on culture in Alaska, students across the state have also been taking a crash course in cultural awareness. Part of the Alaska Humanities Forum Rose Urban Rural Exchange Program is to explore the idea of culture: students interview culture bearers in their own communities and write about themselves as culture bearers. Then they take turns, hosting their sister schools in their home community – and traveling to a new place. Erik Brainerd and Amber Frysz-Newsome from Begich Middle school in Anchorage have more about their group’s experience as “cultural ambassadors.”
