By demonstrating how knowledge of history can inform and improve current public policy debate, we hope to raise the level of discussion.
To help raise the level of civil discourse across Alaska, the Alaska Historical Society is undertaking two initiatives to create a more productive environment in which to arrive at sound public policy.
They are attorney and Alaska Native Justice Center Chief Operating Officer Alex Cleghorn, legal scholar and author David S. Case, and Tlingit scholar and anthropologist Rosita Kaaháni Worl, Ph.D. Today in Alaska and much of the rest of the country, our civil discourse has deteriorated to a point where sensible public policy is not only enormously challenging but often unachievable. By demonstrating how knowledge of history can inform and improve current public policy debate, we hope to raise the level of discussion so an informed public can encourage decision-makers to draw on history to make fact-based policy that serves the broadest diversity of Alaskans.
Keynote speaker Diane Hirshberg, director of the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research, will kick off the conference with a focus on Alaska education, especially that affecting Indigenous and rural youth.
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