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Resumé
Charles
Wohlforth
updated 9/29/2005
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Born
May 24, 1963; Alaska resident since 1966; married Barbara 1985; son
Robert
born 1991, daughter Julia 1994; son Joseph 1999; daughter Rebecca 2001.
Books
Published and Under Contract
The
Whale and the Supercomputer. North Point Press (an
imprint of Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New
York,
April 2004. Paperback edition April 2005. Indigenous and scientific
perceptions of Arctic
climate change.
Frommer’s
Alaska 2005. Wiley,
New York, 2005. Eighth edition of travel guidebook originally
published
in 1996, covering all of Alaska. Ninth edition to be publish January,
2006.
Alaska
For Dummies, second edition. Wiley, New York, 2005. Second
edition of travel
guidebook
covering Alaska.
Frommer’s
Family Vacations in the National Parks, third edition. Wiley,
New
York, 2004. Guidebook covering travel, natural history and culture in
15
national parks and seashores.
Crisis
in the Commons, The Alaska Solution. Institute for
Contemporary
Studies,
Oakland, 2002. Assisted former Alaska governor and Secretary of
the Interior Walter Hickel in writing philosophical memoir.
Spectacular
Alaska. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1998. Text for coffee
table
photography book.
Work
Included in Books or Anthologies
The Alaska Reader: Voices from the North. (Fulcrum,
2005)
National
Geographic National Parks: Atlas and Travel Planner.
Publication
cancelled.
Outside
Magazine’s Guide to Family Vacations. 1997.
Frommer’s
National Parks of the American West, two editions. 1998 and 2000.
Frommer's
USA, two editions.
Best
Newspaper Writing 1990 (Poynter Institue).
Season
of Dead Water. (Anthology on the Exxon Valdez oil spill.)
1990.
Alaska
Review. 1990.
Magazine
and On-Line Work
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for complete list
Alaska
Airlines Magazine, Alaska Geographic, Alaska Magazine, Capital Eye,
Columbia
Journalism Review, Expedia Magazine On Line, FAME, Frommer's.com,
inAlaska.com,
National Wildlife, The New Republic, Newsday, OnEarth, Orion, Outside,
Pacific
Northwest, Panoscope International, Sunset, We Alaskans, World Traveler.
Awards
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Received
more than 25 awards and citations since 1986, from organizations
including: Los Angeles Times Book
Prize, Kiriyama Prize, Overseas Press Club Whitman Bassow Award, Alaska
Library Association, American Society of
Newspaper
Editors, C.B. Blethen Award Foundation, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage
School
District, Alaska
Press
Club, Society of Professional Journalists, Government
Hill Community Council and Princeton University
Education
Graduated
magna cum laude from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, with
B.A. degree in English, 1986.
Employment
1989-present:
Freelance writer and author. See above.
2003-present:
Freelance consultant and speech writer, Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich.
1993-1999:
Member, Anchorage Municipal Assembly. Elected to two three-year terms
to
represent the downtown area of the city-borough government. Chair of
the
Budget Committee for five years, handling an operating budget of over
$200
million as well as capital and utility budgets. Chair of the ATU
Committee,
responsible for the successful sale of the city's $295 million
telephone
company.
1992-1997:
Editor, POL: A Journal of Policy and Politics. Founded and edited a
monthly
journal.
1992-1993:
Research Director, Alaska Research Associates. Managed research
projects,
political campaigns and polling for a political consultancy firm.
1988-1992:
Reporter, Anchorage Daily News. Lead field reporter on the Exxon
Valdez oil
spill. Covered investigative projects, including one that led to the
arrest
of the subject.
1986-1988:
Reporter, Homer News. General assignment reporter for a small town
weekly.
1982-1986:
Student, Princeton University. Majored in English with an emphasis in
creative
writing.
1981-1982:
Reporter and production assistant, KSKA public radio.
Memberships
and Volunteerism
American
Society of Journalists and Authors, member
1998-2002.
Anchorage
Assembly, member and committee chair 1993-1999.
School
Bonds YES!, chaired campaign successful in passage of $264 million
in bonds, 2002-2003.
Chugach
Optional School Assembly Executive Board, officer 2000-2005,
president 2005-2006.
Cook
Inlet Historical Society, board member 1999-2000.
Government
Hill Community Council, president 1992.
Hillcrest
Children's Center Executive Committee, officer 1995-2000.
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