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Maria Halverson

45:06 - 45:38

“Yeah, but you know, keeping in mind culture exchange, business, something economic for our both our economic benefits. Education. So those are the areas that sister cities focus on. So what are the products that we'd like to see here?”
Speaker
Maria Halverson
Community
Alaska News
Location
Anchorage
Captured at
September 14, 2026

From the transcript

Yeah, but you know, keeping in mind culture exchange, business, something economic for our both our economic benefits. Education. So those are the areas that sister cities focus on. So what are the products that we'd like to see here? Uh, yeah, no, I just thought that the consul for Australia in San Francisco, they met with us and the mayor, and it's cool because there's like 3 women, and then it's like all women staff with the mayor's office too.

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