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Senator Bill Wielechowski has been representing East Anchorage in the State Legislature since 2007. He has served as the President and Executive Board member of the East Anchorage Northeast Community Council, the Anchorage Planning and Zoning Commission, and the Anchorage School District Budget Review Team. He has held positions on the Alaska Workers’ Compensation Board and the Muldoon Town Center Committee. Since 2023, Senator Wielechowski has served on the Senate Leadership team as the Senate Rules Committee Chair and Vice Chair of the Senate Resources Committee. Bill earned his B.S. in business management and finance from Seton Hall University in 1989 and his J.D. from the Seton Hall University School of Law in 1992. He was an attorney for IBEW 1547, among others. His contributions have been recognized in numerous ways, from being named Legislator of the Year for the United States by the Vietnam Veterans of America and a Legislative Champion by the Public Safety Employees Association, to being named Hometown Hero in Muldoon. He enjoys fishing, skiing, and mountain biking. A more complete list of his committee assignments and honors can be found at https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Member/Detail/34?code=wie#tab7_1

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Caroline Storm was born in Canada to immigrant parents, one from South Africa and one from Czechoslovakia. Education and learning were central to her home environment, and she was pushed to pursue a professional degree. Educated and licensed as an architect, she left the profession after 25 years in practice to serve as Executive Director of the Coalition for Education Equity in Alaska. Caroline sits on the board(s) of: Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center; Alaska Eating Disorders Alliance and the Alaska Literacy Program (where she volunteer taught Civics for Citizenship). She also sits on the MOA Budget Advisory Commission. An avid road cyclist, she finally completed the Fireweed 200 in 2025 after crashing out of the race in 2018. In all her other spare time, she’s a haphazard gardener, optimistic DIYer, and doting dog mom.

Coroline's email - caroline@ceequity.org

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• Dr. Robert Alexander is the CEO and Co-Founder of AuraLab, whose Breathscape app supports deep meditative states by transforming breath into music through biofeedback. Before launching AuraLab, he worked as a NASA fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center, served as the Chief Innovation Officer at the University of Michigan, and lectured on Sound Design and Psychology at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design. Origin Magazine named him a top creative leader, and his work has been featured in Scientific American, National Geographic, VICE, Science Friday, and the BBC World News Service.

These links from Robert -

• Breathscape
  • YouTube: Guided Breathing Experiences
  • Breathscape iPhone App
• Poem: Rumi - Some Kiss We Want
• Jon Young
  • Wiping Off Road Dust Audio Recording
  • TEDx talk: Repairing Emotional Isolation by Reawakening Deep Nature Connection
• Recommended Books:
  • James Nestor - Breath
  • Andy Caponigro - The Miracle of the Breath
  • Donna Farhi - The Breathing Book
  • There are many others available!
• Practices:
  • Box Breathing
  • Ujjayi
  • Breath of Fire
  • The Buteyko Method

Members of the fellowship can follow up with me at robert@auralab.io.