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Margaret Williams is Managing Director of World Wildlife Fund’s U.S. Arctic program. Based in Anchorage, Alaska, she coordinates a team of experts on wildlife conservation policy, and collaborates with many diverse organizations and individuals across the circumpolar Arctic. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the Alaska Ocean Observing System.
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In Norway, on the final stop of her literary tour of the Arctic, the World Wildlife Fund’s Margaret Williams finds an amalgam of writers providing a unique sense of place and home.
As part of her tour of the Arctic through its literature, Margaret Williams, managing director of the World Wildlife Fund’s U.S. Arctic program, makes a virtual visit to Canada and finds the cruel impacts of colonization, as well as comfort in the stars that signal the sun’s return.
As part of her literary tour of the Arctic, World Wildlife Fund’s Margaret Williams recalls past travels to Russia and her encounters with reindeer-skin homes, the gulag’s horrors and Siberian tigers.
In Alaska, the fourth stop of a literary tour of the Arctic, World Wildlife Fund’s Margaret Williams finds an appreciation for nature, history and culture, and offers a reminder that when change is unseen, our sense of the wildness of a landscape is unknowingly clouded.
In Finland, the third stop of her literary tour of the Arctic, Margaret Williams, managing director of the World Wildlife Fund’s U.S. Arctic program, discovers stories rich in satire, the ruthlessness of war and Karelian culture.
In the Kingdom of Denmark, the second stop of her literary tour of the Arctic, Margaret Williams, managing director of World Wildlife Fund’s U.S. Arctic program, discovers the splendor of ice and the history of strained cultural relations.
In Iceland, the first stop of a literary tour of the Arctic, Margaret Williams, managing director of World Wildlife Fund’s U.S. Arctic program, bypasses the Viking Sagas for contemporary stories of the often wind-whipped nation.
When Nordic leaders meet with President Obama in Washington, D.C., this week, they have the opportunity to address some of the Arctic’s pressing challenges and put the region on the path to a sustainable “blue economy.”
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