The I am Joshua Albaisa Branstetter. I am a Filipino American man living in Anchorage, Alaska,

and I am a local filmmaker and photographer.

I do a lot of documentary work throughout Alaska

and was recently awarded a 2020 Rasmussen Foundation Fellowship for my documentary work with

Absolute Zero, which is a visual arts and documentary project creating a voice and platform for survivors of abuse

throughout Alaska. I am a graduate of Anchorage Christian schools and I

graduated from ACS in 2005.

And can you explain the controversy currently surrounding ACS.

Yes, inspired by the protests and the movement that just has sprung up across America in light of the deaths of George Floyd, Amad Arbury, and Brianna Taylor.

Conversations around the racism and abuse that Biopoc students of Anchorage Christian schools faced. it started to enter the conversation.

And I hadn't myself thought a lot about it since I graduated.

It's something that has affected me, but I kind of had pushed it to the back of my mind.

But as I saw these Facebook posts emerging and people just sharing about everything they experienced,

I realized that I had never reconciled what I had experienced.

My wife, Rochelle, she was like, hey, I remember what you would always tell me.

I think you should reach out to these people that are

that are speaking up you guys could maybe be able to reconcile some of that and so I

started reaching out to the different alumni who were talking, who I saw in the conversations,

and I realized that my experiences were not outliers. I realized that my experiences were very common for a lot of minority students.

And back in June, when I became aware of this,

there were, the students were coming together.

We had, there were 120 unique stories that came out 120. 120.

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