CoastAlaska Joins PM4A

Mollie Kabler, Executive Director of CoastAlaska, offered the following about why they decided to participate.

“CoastAlaska, Inc recognizes the need to address institutional racism within public media. We commit to having our work and workplaces reflect the truly diverse people who rely on public media, often the only source of news available in rural Alaska. Indigenous reporters, stories and voices should be mainstream in our media. We need to overcome our fear of getting it wrong and to work positively for a local reckoning with racism that requires sensitivity to the history of exploitation of native people and lands in Alaska. Public media has three ways to support change; as individuals, as institutions and as conveners of the stories that need to be told.”

CoastAlaska was started in 1994, and incorporated in 1997 as a service organization for public radio stations in Alaska. CoastAlaska currently serves public media organizations in the communities of Juneau, Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, Ketchikan and the Aleutians. Started as an informal alliance, CoastAlaska is a fully independent non-profit.