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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.

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Jory Knott is the Executive Director of the Alaska Innocence Project. A lifelong Alaskan, he earned an interdisciplinary degree in art and music at UAA, then moved to Oregon, where he composed music, wrote grants for creative projects, and apprenticed in stone masonry. He became operations manager for a masonry company with stone cutting operations and rock quarries across the Pacific Northwest. In 2009, he moved back to Alaska. He changed his career trajectory, teaching music and art to adults with special needs while attending UAA, pursuing legal studies with a minor in civil engagement. He interned with the Alaska Innocence Project in the fall of 2015. He helped manage the office for months while the Executive Director, Bill Oberly, attended the trial of the Fairbanks Four, who were exonerated that December. Hooked on innocence work, Jory went to law school at the University of Montana, volunteering with the Montana Innocence Project. He returned to extern with AKIP during his last year of law school and has been working there full-time since graduating.

Slides - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0oh6fju7ip2kadle46g0j/AKIP-AUUF-Powerpoint.pdf?rlkey=nc8et9o3ckchksnk50xzi8uzo&dl=0

Alaska Innocence Project "One Sheet" - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/0bvslcxq3s21xbphhhr3p/AKIP-One-Sheet.pdf?rlkey=z5oz32gdp6hdeghzmc8s1qg9n&dl=0

AK Innocence Project website - https://www.alaskainnocenceproject.org

Fairbanks-Four drumming video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5vvUTEhtk