Biography William L. Iggiagruk Hensley

2013 Professional Profile

o Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Alaska, Anchorage, 2011­• Manager, Federal Government Relations, Alyeska Pipeline Service Co.

(Retired, February 2008) • Manger, Alaska Native Program, Alyeska Pipeline, 1997-1998 • Commissioner, Department of Commerce, State of Alaska, 1995-1997 • NANA Regional Corporation, Inuit owned Native Corporation, 1975-1995,

Served as director and president in Northwest Alaska

Political Profile

• Alaska House of Representatives, 1966-1970 • Alaska State Senate, 1970-1974, 1985-1986 • Rural Affairs Commission, 1968-1974; Chair, Land Claims Task Force • Alaska Democratic Party Chair, 1968-69, 1984-1986 • Democratic National Committeeman, Alaska, 1980-1982 • Co-Chair, Clinton/Gore, Alaska (with former Gov. Bill Sheffield) • Transition Team, 1992, Clinton/Gore, Little Rock, Ar

Boards and Commissions 1995-1997

• Alaska Industrial Development Authority • Alaska Railroad Corporation • Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation • Northern Forum, Secretary • Chair, Salmon Industry Response Cabinet • Chair, Alaska/Sakhalin Working Group • Capitol Site Selection Committee, Chair, 1975-76

Community Service

• Northwest Alaska Native Association Founder and executive director

• Alaska Federation of Natives, co-founder, director, executive director, president and co-chairman, President Emeritus, 1966-2007

• Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, director and president, 1966-1971 • Northwest Regional Education Laboratory, served as director for 6 years • American Red Cross, Director for Alaska and Pacific Region, 3 years • Providence Hospital Advisory Board, 1979-1986 • United Nations AssociationlUSA Board of Directors, 1994 • Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, board of directors, 1995-2009 • University of Alaska, Board of Regents, 1984-1986

• Charter College, Board of Trustees, 1997-present • Federal Subsistence Advisory Board, Chair, 1994 • Chair, Alaska Manufacturing Extension Partnership, 2004-2010 • Chair, First Alaskans Institute, 2006-present • Co-Founder, Alaska Native Arts Foundation, 2002

Education

• Kotzebue Day School (grade school,Alaska) • Harrison Chilhowee Academy (high school,Tennessee) • University of Alaska «2 years) • George Washington University, (BA, Political Science, 1966)

Honors

• Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Alaska, 1981 • Citizen of the Year, Alaska Federation of Natives, 1980 • Governor's Award, Citizen of the Year, Alaska • Rockefeller Foundation, National Public Service Award, 1981 • Shareholder of the Year, NANA Regional Corporation, 1980 • Friend of Higher Education, UA Board of Regents, 1988 • Commendation Award for Suicide Prevention, 1988 • 40 Alaskans Who Changed Our Lives, Number 10, "We Alaskans" 1999 • Historian of the Year, Alaska Historical Society, 2009 • Walter J. Hickel Award for Distinguished Public Policy Leadership,

Commonwealth North, 2009 • Visiting Distinguished Professor, University of Alaska, Anchorage. 2011 • Leo Reano Award for human and civil rights by the National Education

Association, 2013 • Lifetime Achievement Award, Alaska Democratic Party, 2014

WritinglPublication

o What Rights to Land Have the Alaska Natives: The Primary Issue, 1966 o Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People, 2008 o "Uncle Ted: Pugnacious Political Papa", Anchorage Press, August, 2010 o "Stewart Udall, A Great Spirit", Alaska Dispatch, March 2010 o "First Blood", Alaska Humanities Forum magazine, Spring 2012

SpeecheslPresentations

o Naarm Oration, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Institute for Indigenous Development, Australia, November, 2011

o Conference on Concerns of Minorities and Women, National Education

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Association, Washington, DC. June, 2012 o Guest Speaker for American Embassy and Bolivian Government in La Paz,

EI Alto, Sucre and Santa Cruz, December 2010. o Presenter in Lyon, France at the Grenoble Centre International Conference

"The Arctic: Geopolitical Issues and Equations in the 21 sl Century", November, 2010.

o Presenter at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Arctic Conference, June, 2011.

o Keynote speaker, Oxford North American Arctic Conference, September, 2013

o Keynote Speaker, Philanthropy Northwest Annual Conference, Juneau Alaska, October, 2013. "Beneath the Boat: Currents and Cross-Currents"