Camp Fire Alaska | Light the Fire Within

Anna McGovern

Director of Afterschool Programs

 

Anna was born and raised in Massachusetts, but found herself moving to Alaska in 2014, where she served for a year as an AmeriCorps VISTA. That year of service led her family to fall in love with Alaska, and to claim they would stay for “just a few years.” With over 16 years of experience in the youth-serving field, Anna has worn various hats in education, afterschool programs, and public health. Outside of work, you can usually find her chasing after her two boys, reading, traveling, staying active, belting musicals, and frolicking in the Alaskan outdoors.

The Camp Fire Alaska main office operates on the ancestral land of the Dena’ina people. Camp Fire Alaska runs programing on the lands of the Athabascan, Yup’ik, Chup’ik, Sougpiaq, and Inupiaq peoples. We value and thank them for their current and historic commitment to and protection of this land. We pledge to assist, in partnership, in the environmental stewardship of these lands. We strive to learn more about the history of the Native peoples of Alaska and the historic trauma they have suffered. We commit to being an active ally through activities, actions, and organizational decisions and practices. We understand that this is a dynamic process through which our Land Acknowledgement practices, and statement will evolve as we receive feedback from tribal partners and acquire a deeper understanding of and from the Native peoples of Alaska..  (v2)