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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Members of the Anchorage Zen Community say meditating together builds community and connection — not despite the silence, but because of it. -
From the agenda to travel impacts, here's what to know about Friday's summit. -
The closures impact popular biking, running and hiking trails in Far North Bicentennial Park and the Campbell Tract. -
The Pasefika Roots Institute officially opened on Monday. It will offer an after-school program, language classes, dance lessons, oral history projects and more. -
The show is part of the annual Arctic Encounters Summit and transformed the Anchorage Museum into a runway, showcasing Indigenous artists, designers and models. -
Fish Creek is the only personal-use fishery on the road system in the Mat-Su, and it opens for a few days every summer, depending on salmon numbers. -
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.
