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Susan B. Andrews
John Creed |
Susan B. Andrews and John Creed are professors of journalism and humanities at Chukchi College, the University of Alaska's branch campus in Kotzebue, a settlement on the windswept coast of Northwest Arctic Alaska about 175 miles east of Russia. Their book, Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers, is available in a Bison Books edition from the University of Nebraska Press.
Their students live primarily in remote villages throughout rural Alaska and attend class through satellite- and computer-assisted distance education. In 1988 John and Susan founded Chukchi News and Information Service, a cultural journalism project for publishing student writing in newspapers and magazines throughout Alaska. Today CNIS publications appear in both traditional and Internet media. Among the project’s honors are a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Alaska Press Club's Public Service Award. (Chukchi News and Information Service also spawned the Authentic Alaska anthology.)
As freelance journalists, John and Susan have been recognized for their reporting on dog mushing, education, and global warming in rural Alaska. For work on First Amendment issues, they have received "Champions of Free Speech" awards from the Alaska Civil Liberties Union "for zealously challenging public policies that deprive Alaskans of their civil liberties and for courageously defending academic freedom, free speech and a free and independent press." For work on Alaska Native issues, the American Bar Association recognized them with a Silver Gavel Award.
Prior to joining the UA faculty, Professor Andrews was a television producer for the Kotzebue-based Northwest Arctic Borough School District. She created television documentaries on Alaska Native issues and historical figures, including the late Howard Rock, an Inupiaq artist and the editor, publisher and founder of Tundra Times, a crusading statewide Native newspaper. Before coming to Kotzebue, Professor Andrews was anchor and news director at KTVF-TV, the CBS affiliate in Fairbanks.
Before joining the UA faculty, Professor Creed covered business and education for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. He also edited the Tusraayugaat, an award-winning bilingual newspaper published in the early 1980s by the Kotzebue-based Northwest Arctic School District. Professor Creed also has taught school in Sutton, Massachusetts, and in Noatak, an Inupiaq village north of Kotzebue. He also has served as president of the Alaska Press Club, which during his tenure launched the Howard Rock/Tom Snapp First Amendment Award, Alaska’s most coveted media-related award.
John and Susan have four children: Myles, born in 1989; Tiffany, born in 1990; and twins Trevor and Deirdre, born in 1996. All the Creed children have attended Kotzebue’s public schools. Myles and Tiffany are graduates of Mt. Edgecumbe High School, a public boarding school in Sitka in Southeast Alaska, and attend college in Portland, Oregon.
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Susan B. Andrews and John Creed are writers, editors and educators. Since the late 1980s, Professors Andrews and Creed have taught humanities and journalism at Kotzebue-based Chukchi College, a branch of the University of Alaska. Kotzebue lies about 26 miles above the Arctic Circle in northwest Alaska and some 175 miles from the eastern tip of Russia. Their anthology of Alaska Native student writers, Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers, is part of an ongoing cultural journalism project. Former full-time journalists, since joining the UA faculty they have authored non-fiction articles, columns, and book reviews for newspapers, magazines, websites, blogs, and scholarly journals. They also publish photographs and fiction. Read more... |
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