History of the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame
The idea of creating the Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame was initiated in 2008 when the Alaska Women’s Network’s Board of Directors (AWN) discussed how it could use its web site to honor Alaska’s women as part of the upcoming celebration of Alaska’s fifty years of statehood. Two ideas were suggested: first, update the 1983 Profiles of Change, a publication by the...
The Alaska Women’s Hall of Fame is a collaborative project of the Zonta Club of Anchorage, the Alaska Women’s Network, YWCA Anchorage, the Alaska Women’s Political Caucus, the Anchorage Women’s Commission, the University of Alaska Anchorage and a large number of interested Alaska women. Together, they have created a place to remember and embrace the strong Alaska women who came before us and walk beside us...