Anchorage politico Anna Hutchinson has for the past few years been a major fundraiser for political campaigns in Anchorage and is now managing campaigns herself. In 2021 she came to Anchorage to work for her college friend Forrest Dunbar’s mayoral campaign. The plan was to be here for just a few months, but she has stayed on to work on other political campaigns. Although we set out to discuss strategies for new folks to get involved in local politics, we ended up with a wide-ranging conversation discussing her unusual childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, her obsession with Harry Potter, and her time as director of a domestic violence shelter in rural California.
