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Eighth Fire Green Jobs Conference

KAXE | By Heidi Holtan,

Published December 9, 2022 at 2:09 AM CST

Annie Humphrey, award-winning singer and songwriter, joined the Thursday Morning show to discuss the Eighth Fire Green Jobs Conference! It isn't just a job fair- it's a place to go to be inspired, think about how you want to participate in building a more sustainable society, or just want to tweak your career. Annie, Kari, and Heidi discuss the breadth of green jobs: teachers, financial advisors, musicians, elder care workers, and more can fit into the green jobs category! Keynote speakers include Chef Sean Sherman (The Sioux Chef), Robert Blake of Solar Bear, and Will Steger (polar explorer and creator of the documentary “After Antarctica”). The daytime session runs 9 am-3 pm, and the evening portion is scheduled from 6 pm-9 pm. Learn more and register here!

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Heidi Holtan

Heidi Holtan is Director of Content and Public Affairs. She manages producers/hosts and is the host of the KAXE Morning Show, including a variety of local content like Phenology, What's for Breakfast, Area Voices, The Sports Page and much more, alongside Morning Edition from NPR.

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Kari Hedlund

The Music Director at KAXE since 2014, Kari (pronounced Car-ee) Hedlund reviews music on the daily. She hosts Headwaters every Wednesday (9 a.m. and 10 p.m.) and some Mondays, and is co-host to Heidi Holtan on the Thursday Morning Show.

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Charlie Mitchell

Charlie Mitchell (she/they) joined KAXE in February of 2022. Charlie creates the Season Watch Newsletter, produces the Phenology Talkbacks show, coordinates the Phenology in the Classroom program, and writes nature-related stories for KAXE's website. Essentailly, Charlie is John Latimer's faithful sidekick and makes sure all of KAXE's nature/phenology programs find a second life online and in podcast form.

With a background in ecology and evolutionary biology, Charlie enjoys learning a little bit about everything, whether it's plants, mushrooms, or the star-nosed mole. (Fun fact: Moles store fat in their tails, so they don't outgrow their tunnels every time conditions are good.)

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