Marty Lange grew up in Juneau, Alaska. He graduated from Biola University 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with an emphasis on Radio and TV production.

He served with SIL, an international non-profit organization, for 31 years, first as an audio recordist and later as an audiovisual media consultant. He specialized in training indigenous groups to create Scripture-based media in their own languages. From 2014 to 2022 he led SIL’s Americas Area Mobile Technology for Scripture Engagement team, training indigenous groups how to build apps in their language which were usually the first apps ever created in those languages.  

He works for the Alaska Commission on Aging as a Program Coordinator. This allows him to combine his many years working in media with highlighting issues that affect Alaska’s senior population. He especially enjoys the opportunity to work with elders and those providing services to elders in Alaska’s rural and remote communities.

Pat Branson, a 41-year Kodiak resident, was the Senior Citizens of Kodiak, Inc. (SCOK) CEO for 35 years and served on the Alaska Commission on Aging in the provider seat for 8 years.  SCOK is the first senior center in Alaksa to become nationally accredited through the National Council on Aging and only 1 of 4 across the country to be nationally accredited 5 times.  She serves on the AGENET Board and has been President and now Treasurer of that advocacy group.  She has been the City of Kodiak mayor for more than 12 years and also served on the Kodiak Island Borough assembly for 12 years; is past president of the Alaska Municipal League and continues to serve on that board; is past president of The Foraker Group and serves as that Board’s Treasurer; was inducted into the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame and  also received the Jay Rabinowitz public service award from the Alaska Bar Foundation in 2022.