Ecritage

Product Description <br/>A collection of essays drawn from 30 years of environmental activism, informed by a life in anthropology and communications, from early years in the Snowy Range of Wyoming to the Exxon Valdez oil spill.<br/> About the Author <br/>I have been writing steadily for over 40 years, in various places and employment situations, volunteer, freelance and for hire. Throughout my working life, I've emphasized creative and effective communications, internally and externally. I published my first magazine article in 1972 for the Job Corps in Action magazine.<br/><br/>In 1984-85, I took a Master level course in Instructional Design and Technology at the University of Wyoming. While at the University, I served as Photography Editor and Night Editor for the campus newspaper, The Branding Iron. I interned at Arthur Anderson & Co. in Chicago (before they became infamous) in the Tax Department, where I interviewed content experts and wrote self-study curricula for AA&Co international staff, for distance learning and on-site instruction in tax law and procedures.<br/><br/>In 1985, I began 15 years of work in academe, at Sheldon Jackson College in Sitka, Alaska, Prince William Sound Community College in Valdez, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where I earned a PhD. in anthropology, with an emphasis on archaeological investigations on the effects of climate variability on indigenous migrations across the Bering Strait over the past 2,500 years. At the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico I worked as Curator of Archaeology. <br/><br/>While in Alaska, I wrote numerous environmental articles for newspapers and magazines. I wrote and published Wally World, a a pre-Internet blog distributed by mail, about Alaska environmental issues during the Governorship of Wally Hickle. During the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, I wrote about the effects of the spill on the wildlife and indigenous people of Prince William Sound and produced a video documentary on the spill that was distributed world-wide by the United Nations. I coordinated volunteer efforts from around the world, using BITNET, a precursor of the Internet available among universities and colleges.