Biography
POSITION
Mara Kimmel is a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the
University of Alaska Anchorage where she teaches courses in Comparative
Politics, Law and American and Alaska Government. Mara is interested in issues of natural
resources policy, human rights, environmental justice and environmental
security.
CURRENT
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Mara currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of the North
where she is researching issues of commons and property rights. She was also recently appointed to serve on
an Alaska Supreme Court Committee examining issues of access to justice. Mara is a founding member and Board president
of the Alaska Immigration Justice Project, the only non-profit service provider
in Alaska that offers low cost legal assistance to indigent immigrants and high
quality language services for Alaskans with limited English proficiency.
AWARDS
AND SERVICE
2010 Appointed Senior Research Fellow, Institute of the North, Anchorage,
Alaska
2010
Appointed by Alaska Supreme Court Justice Winfree to the Access to Justice
Court Committee
2008
Recipient, Chancellor’s Fund Award for Research, Scholarship and Creative
Activities
2005
Distinguished Service Award from the Alaska Bar Association
2003 Fellow, German Marshall Fund, American Marshall Memorial Fellow
2001
Appointed by Governor Knowles to the Governor’s Tolerance Commission
PREVIOUS
EXPERIENCE
Mara is an attorney by training. Her practice area focused on immigration and
human rights law, and she represented asylum seekers and immigrant victims of
violence. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Mara worked with Alaska Native tribes on
natural resource management and subsistence issues.
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