Board of Directors

Kids Voting has combined Ellen’s two passions, education, and the political process. She was a teacher for 35 years in Philadelphia, where she taught English to high school students and started a ninth-grade alternative school. Towards the end of her career, Ellen became a partner in a non-profit that paired school children with community groups to create open-space gardens. Her hobbies are mushing dogs, reading, knitting, and baking, especially bread- thanks to the recent pandemic.

Judy has lived in the Goldstream Valley for 51 years in a home that she and her husband built.  Her son went through the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District and is now a professor of political science at the University of Florida, Gainsville. She has worked as a chemist in multiple research labs and a hospital and as an elementary teacher. She has been the scholarship chairman of the Fairbanks Retired Teachers’ Association for the past 9 years and a volunteer at the Hospice plant sale for the past 15 years.

Brandy is a certified Elementary and Special Education teacher with an MEd in Special Education. She is currently serving as an elected member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education. Brandy was born and raised in Fairbanks and is a proud product of Fairbanks public schools. She participated in Kids Voting as a child and also facilitated her own classroom participation when she taught 5th grade at Hunter Elementary. Brandy and her family enjoy getting outside and skiing, both alpine and Nordic, and going on cabin trips when possible. She is also an artist in her free time and enjoys working in her home studio on all manner of creative pursuits.

Diana has been an RN for 36 years, retiring in 2014. Currently, she volunteers with Hospice, Fairbanks Arts Association, Aging at Home Fairbanks, and Kids Voting North Alaska. Her son had an excellent experience participating in We the People while he was at West Valley High School. Diana joined Kids Voting North Alaska because she believes Kids Voting can enhance students’ knowledge and enthusiasm for civic education, encouraging them to participate in our democracy as informed voters or future politicians.

Pursuing her vocation of teaching, Fawn served in the Peace Corps in Kiribati in the Central Pacific as a teacher trainer and taught in Quinhagak in Western Alaska. Upon returning home to Fairbanks, she worked for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District providing professional development to teachers with linguistically diverse students in their classrooms, earned an MS in Educational Administration, and worked for the Association of Interior Native Educators. Most recently, Fawn taught upper grades at Hunter Elementary for twelve years until she retired in 2022. One of her favorite parts of teaching was helping students understand the world beyond the classroom and their own power in helping make that world a better place.