LaFrance’s appointments include former Municipal Clerk Barbara Jones as deputy chief of staff, and former Anchorage Downtown Partnership executive director Amanda Moser as external affairs director.
Incoming Mayor Suzanne LaFrance heads to the stage for her inauguration event at Town Square Park in Anchorage on July 1, 2024. Barbara Jones, the former longtime Anchorage municipal clerk, was announced as Mayor Suzanne LaFrance's deputy chief of staff on Wednesday. Photographed at the MOA Election Center in 2018.
• Graham Downey has been appointed to be LaFrance’s special assistant in housing and transportation and joins the mayor’s office from the Alaska Public Interest Research Group, where he’s worked as its• Marie Husa is joining the mayor’s office in the role of constituent relations director. Husa comes from a job with the Bering Straits Native Corp., according to the statement.
As special assistant in homelessness and health, Brown will “work to advance key administration priorities to address homelessness and promote community health and safety.” Downey, as special assistant in housing and transportation, will work to advance LaFrance’s priorities in housing, transportation and community development, according to the statement. At the Alaska Public Interest Research Group, he’s focused on housing, debt and economic issues impacting working families, the statement said.
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