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On the water, she’s a paddleboard entrepreneur. On the rink, she drops derby opponents to their kneepads. And in the classroom, Marvat Obeidi is a role model for her multilingual students—like them, she grew up in Anchorage between two cultures, two languages and the culture shock of being a first-generation Alaskan.

She moved from a bucolic suburb of Nairobi 12 years ago to study nursing at UAA and emerged four years later with a hard-won bachelor's degree. Now she's a registered nurse at Providence Alaska Medical Center. Meet Rahab Kiruku.

UAA alumnus Brandon Wood ran his first Crow Pass Crossing last year. He talks here about his three-year path to that torturous race.

Award-winning nurse Leda Garside brings her mobile medical clinic rolling through the valleys and vineyards of Oregon's wine country, seeking to provide much-needed health care and support to the state's migrant workers.

After a low-income childhood where the McDonald’s drive-thru seemed like an out-of-reach luxury, Tim now oversees budgets of up to $80 million as a project engineer.

Enough Casons have gone through UAA to field their own volleyball team. Team captain would be Jackie Cason—English professor, coordinator of the composition program, 2001 graduate, and mother of two UAA alumni.

Amy is no stranger to artistic reinvention. This former custom wedding gown maker is also a writer, a children's book illustrator and a textile artist.

Cody Gibson has a big job ahead of him—mapping the ocean floor. It'll take boats, airplanes, helicopters, lasers, a lot more hands on deck and probably decades. That's some job security for a geomatics scholar.

She's done it all: flying planes, driving a forklift, raising alpacas, earning a bachelor's degree in physics and, at UAA, a master's degree in education. Now she's founded Grow Palmer, an organization that creates gardens where anyone can clip off and eat broccoli, lettuce, cabbage and other healthy delectables. Meet Jan Newman.

Cerebral palsy and deafness complicate his life, yet he pushes back against those challenges to enjoy family and friends, camp, kayak and shock public perceptions about the concept of disability. Meet Jack Runser.