Eliza Dunn
Summer News FellowEliza is the 2025 summer news fellow at Alaska Public Media, reporting on stories about life in Anchorage.
Eliza is originally from Hingham, Massachusetts, and she graduated from Dartmouth College in spring 2025. At school, she hosted a weekly radio show on WebDCR, Dartmouth’s campus station, and she spent a summer interning at KOTO, the community radio station in Telluride, Colorado.
In her free time, Eliza likes hiking, cold water swimming and telling people about her dog named Little Dog.
Reach Eliza at edunn@alaskapublic.org or 907-550-8481.
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The initiative, called Beyond the Beige, awarded a total of $100,000 to five projects from murals to animal-shaped bike racks to a traveling book mobile. -
Crow Pass Crossing is one of Alaska’s most iconic and technical mountain races. This year, the 40th anniversary of the race brought together both hardened veterans and a huge, growing field of rookies. -
Tails on Trails allows volunteers to borrow a dog for 48 hours to hike, run or just sit on the couch and hang out. -
Bird vetch is rampant in Alaska. Some Anchorage residents are coming together to prevent it from choking out native plants and taking over city green spaces. -
Justin Dipaola-Allen, a self-described “weekend warrior,” spends his free time hiking and running in the park’s nearly half-million rugged acres around Anchorage. -
The goal was to let participants actually practice using bear spray — so that if they run into a bear, it’s not their first time using it. -
A sculpture and signs were recently unveiled at Qin Cheghi, or Tanaina Peak, near Flattop as part of the Indigenous Place Names Project.
