Dear everyone,

 

Thank you all SO much for helping to make Deborah’s visit happen!  We are incredibly grateful.

 

I am attaching the latest version of her itinerary.  Some details are missing on events next week, but I hope to have everything in order soonest.

 

Best,

Margaret

 

Margaret Manousoff

 

Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator

Alaska Conservation Solutions
308 G St., Suite 219
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 929-9370
Fax: (907) 929-1562
www.alaskaconservationsolutions.com 

From: Allan Tweddle [mailto:allantweddle@msn.com]
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 7:02 AM
To: 'Margaret Manousoff'; Vivian Stockman
Cc: Don GARVIN; Frank YOUNG; Frederica Davis; James Kotcon; Paul R. Ostand, PE; Ed Snyder; Sierra Club Environmental Comm.; WVEC Email List; Ted Armbrecht, Jr.; Susan WALTER; Susan Allen; sally shepherd; Rick Eades; RANK Cindy; Paul Wilson; Nancy GUTHRIE; Mark Scott; Judy BONDS; Judy Rodd; Julian Martin; JULIE PRATT VA. AVE KC NIEGHBOR; Helen Bar-Yaacov; Gary BORSTEIN; Hedda Haning M.D.
Subject: Re: promoting Debra Williams visits here in WV

 

Margaret

 

Please cc. all of the e-mail names on this memo, as each has access to a separate e-mailing action list.

 

list.

 

To those receiving this mailing, who might not have received earlier posts, attached is a very brief resume of Debra Williams, AND THE poster announcing her speaking engagement at the University of Charleston THIS WEEK...on THURSDAY.

 

This very accomplished and honored Harvard Law School Graduate will be in West Virginia from the 10th to the 15th speaking at several venues. 

 

Hope you all can attend one of the functions.

 

ALLAN

 



Outreach and Advocacy Coordinator

Alaska Conservation Solutions
308 G St., Suite 219
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: (907) 929-9370
Fax: (907) 929-1562
 <http://www.alaskaconservationsolutions.com>
http://www.alaskaconservationsolutions.com


Deborah L. Williams, President
Ms. Williams has been actively involved in conservation and sustainable community for over 35 years, and is now focusing on global warming.

She received her B.A. from Pomona College, summa cum laude, with a concentration in Biology and Economics. Subsequently she was graduated from Harvard Law School, with honors, and was the principal founder of and co-editor-in-chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review
<http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/>
<http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/>

 

After serving in the Department of Interior's Solicitors Honors Program in Washington D.C., Ms. Williams represented the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska. Between 1981 and 1994, Ms. Williams was the Executive Director of the Alaska Consumer Advocacy Program and of the Alaska Lung Association, while serving on many boards and commissions, including Trustees for Alaska (president of the board) and the Municipal Health Commission (chair of the Environmental Health Committee.)

In 1994, Ms. Williams received a Presidential appointment and became the Special Assistant to the Secretary of Interior for Alaska, in which position she advised the Secretary about managing over 220 million acres of national lands in Alaska and working with Alaska tribes and others associated with the Department's broad natural and cultural resource jurisdiction.

 

She also was a Trustee on the Exxon Valdez Trustee Council and other boards. For over six years, Ms. Williams served as the Executive Director of the Alaska Conservation Foundation, winning many awards in that role.

 

Currently Ms. Williams is President of Alaska Conservation Solutions, an organization devoted primarily to addressing global warming. Ms. Williams has published numerous law review and other articles, has been featured repeatedly in the media (including 60 Minutes, the New York Times and the BBC), and has taught graduate-level courses at both the University of Alaska and Alaska Pacific University. 

Deborah greatly enjoys backpacking, skiing, gardening, traveling, and
serving on boards and in service organizations such as Rotary and the
American Land Conservancy.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:06 AM

Subject: promoting Debra Williams visits here in WV

 

Hi Margaret. I work with OVEC, one of the groups hosting one of Ms. Williams speaking engagements here.

If possible, please send me info on all her talks in WV--date, time, location, sponsoring groups, and I will put that info out to our West Virginia members and post in our our global warming and WV page.

 

thank you so much!

 

PS we've already  had a little article in the Huntington newspaper.

--VS