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Arianna Bellizzi

29:08 - 29:20

“So I'd like to— I'd like to see staff paid for it and I'd like to make sure that women aren't bearing this like volunteer gig as part of their job unfairly.”
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
October 8, 2026

From the transcript

And so what can happen is that you don't— you have a bunch of volunteers who aren't properly supported to do the work and then you're asking them to advise on various things. And, you know, I know from personal experience that that doesn't go very well. So I'd like to— I'd like to see staff paid for it and I'd like to make sure that women aren't bearing this like volunteer gig as part of their job unfairly.

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