Charles Wohlforth
Charles Wohlforth is author of more than a dozen books and numerous articles. He is a collaborative writer and writing coach, former elected official, broadcaster, and non-profit leader. His books include work about science and the environment, politics and history, medicine, travel, and as-told-to biography. His book The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change, won the L.A. Times Book Prize in 2004. His three-times-weekly column for the Anchorage Daily News in 2019 won the western U.S. states’ most prestigious journalism award, “Best of the West.” He has worked collaboratively with governors, leading members of Congress, CEOs and business pioneers, scientists, doctors, and engineers in many fields, indigenous leaders, educators, and community activists, and many other interesting people with stories to tell.
Wohlforth graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1986 before returning to Alaska to work six years as a newspaper reporter. He became a full-time freelance writer in 1993, publishing articles in The Daily Beast, The New Republic, Discover and many other periodicals. He served two 3-year terms on the Anchorage Assembly, for five years writing the city budget for Anchorage. He worked as a policy advisor, strategic planning consultant, and speechwriter for politicians and consulted on energy, transportation, and sustainability. As leader of a coalition of rural Alaska schools, he settled two constitutional lawsuits that brought hundreds of millions of dollars of new support to struggling schools and at-risk students.