Obesity is a national problem. Diane Peck is a public health specialist with the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services’ Obesity Prevention and Control Program. She’s just working with a panel called the Alaska Food Policy Council which is putting together a program aimed at both reducing the number of overweight Alaskans, and in pointing them toward eating healthy, local foods.
APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
elockyer (at) alaskapublic (dot) org | 907.550.8446 | About Ellen
