Alaska Support Industry Alliance Welcomes a New External Affairs Coordinator
Catherine Chambers joined the Alliance as the new External Affairs Coordinator. In that position, she is responsible for communications strategy, arranging events, and advocacy before the legislature.
After living in Farmington, New Mexico for nine years, Chambers recently returned home to Anchorage to start her career. Growing up in a family passionate about resource development, she brings her background in marketing and her love for all the Alaska has to offer.
Chambers steps in for Owen Phillips, who is leaving the organization to finish a graduate degree in communications at Washington State University.
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In mid-May it was 19°F and windy at the Aurora Hotel in Deadhorse. As I stood in the parking lot surveying the surroundings, I chatted with a gentleman from Texas who works for Nabors Alaska Drilling and was in town as part of a crew tasked with getting a previously inactive drill rig up and running. He said that, according to his supervisor, spring is the windy season on the North Slope. The gusts were bracing, numbing the fingers holding my camera, but most of my attention was focused on what I could capture through the lens: work trucks, shipping containers, buildings obscured by snow whipped up by the wind.