Mentors as both friends and role models

Episode 48 March 15, 2021 00:09:19
Mentors as both friends and role models
Alaska Voices
Mentors as both friends and role models

Mar 15 2021 | 00:09:19

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Show Notes

Jessica Garron (41) speaks with her mentor and friend, Elena B. Sparrow (74) about their relationship as mentor and mentee and what they learned during 15 years of working with one another.

Recorded by Jessie Robertson on August 8, 2017 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska. Edited by Kelsey Skonberg. 

Music: “Arctic Evening” by Marcel du Preez

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