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
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