Program Officer

Ann Rothe

arothe@akcf.org

Ann Rothe is a wildlife biologist, journalist, and 30-year Alaska resident who has extensive experience in Alaska environmental policy through her work with the U.S. Department of Interior, Alaska Department of Natural Resources, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation (whose Alaska office she established), the Prince William Sound Regional Citizens' Advisory Council (which she helped create shortly after the Exxon Valdez oil spill), and Trustees for Alaska, a nonprofit, public interest, environmental law firm for which she served as executive director for ten years.  She has most recently worked as an environmental consultant focused on writing, editing, and research on a range of topics, including oil and gas industry requirements for restoration of leased lands, environmental impacts of large-scale mining in Alaska, and impacts of environmental contaminants on human health in rural Alaska villages.

Ann received a Bachelor of Science degree in science journalism and wildlife biology from Iowa State University.  She completed her journalism internship at Argonne National Laboratory.  She has served as a member of the National Research Council’s Oil Pollution Act Section 4115 Review Committee and a member of the Minerals Management Services’ Regional Technical Working Group for Outer Continental Shelf Activities, as well as a member of the Board of Advisors for the University of Alaska’s School of Agriculture and Land Resources Management, and a member of the Board of Advisors for the Anchorage Daily News.

Ann is an avid duck and goose hunter, and she and her husband of twenty-eight years breed and train retrievers for field trials and hunting.