Speakers

Fran Ulmer has spent 35 years in local, state, and national public service. She served for eighteen years as mayor of Juneau, state representative, and lieutenant governor of Alaska, and she also served as Alaska’s director of policy development. At the national level, she was a member of the Federal Communications Commission's state and local advisory committee, the Federal Elections Commission’s state advisory committee, and the North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission. She currently cochairs the National Academies of Sciences Voter Registration Task Force, the national advisory board of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the board of trustees of the Alaska Nature Conservancy. She has directed the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where since May of 2007 she has served as university chancellor.