While ALC is based in Anchorage, our Adult Learning Center Online (ALCO) system has allowed us to expand the geographic areas in which we provide our services; extending our services to all of rural Alaska and the rest of the state. This ability is particularly important during pandemics (COVID-19, for example), due to the diminished ability for, and safety concerns associated with, intrastate travel. For example, we are able to offer the opportunity for rural Alaskans who did not complete their high school diploma to do so, affordably and at the pace their job, hunting, fishing and adult life allows. With a founder and President who spent the better part of two decades teaching in rural Alaska, it is especially important to ALC that no Alaskans and no regions are left behind, especially during difficult times.