Lisa Talbott grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. She arrived there with her family in elementary school with her father involved in the air cargo industry.
“I remember, even as a small child, stepping off the airplane and leaving the airport and feeling like I was at home, like seeing the mountains around us and flat top and O’Malley peak, and just like feeling that embrace of the scenery around me and I, it was like I had this huge exhale and felt like I was home.”
She began a career as a teacher in the Anchorage School District where she taught English at Bartlett High School and Clark Middle School that Talbott describes as two of the most diverse schools in the United States…