FELLOWS & STAFF
F E L LOWS A N D STA F F
Cristine Russell
Joel Clement
Fran Ulmer
Cristine Russell is an Adjunct Lecturer
Joel Clement is a Senior Fellow at the
Fran Ulmer is a Non-Resident Senior
in Public Policy and Senior Fellow at
Arctic Initiative. Clement is a science
Fellow at the Arctic Initiative. She is chair
the Environment and Natural Resources
and policy consultant with a background
of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission,
Program. She is an award-winning
in resilience and climate adaptation,
where she has served since being appoint-
freelance journalist who has covered
landscape-scale conservation and man-
ed by President Obama in March 2011. In
science, environment, public health
agement, and Arctic social-ecological
June 2010, President Obama appointed
and STEM issues for more than three
systems. As Director of the Department
her to the National Commission on the
decades. Russell, a former national
of Interior’s Policy Office, he led a team of
BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and
science reporter for The Washington Post,
policy analysts and economists, provided
Offshore Drilling. From 2007 to 2011,
has also written for news media outlets
advice and analysis to White House
Ms. Ulmer was chancellor of Alaska’s
such as Scientific American, Columbia
leadership and two Secretaries of Interior,
largest public university, the University
Journalism Review, and The Atlantic.
developed innovative policies to address
of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). Before
Russell is an Advisory Board member
landscape conservation needs, and was
that, she was a Distinguished Visiting
and former Fellow at HKS’ Shorenstein
the Interior Department’s appointed
Professor of Public Policy and Director
Center on Media, Politics & Public Policy.
principal to the U.S. Global Change
of the Institute of Social and Economic
Research Program. He also co-chaired
Research at UAA. She is a member of the
the Arctic Council’s groundbreaking
Global Board of the Nature Conservancy
2016 Arctic Resilience Report.
and on the Board of the National Parks Conservation Association. Ms. Ulmer served as an elected official for 18 years as the mayor of Juneau, a state representative, and as Lieutenant Governor of Alaska.
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