LAEL (Morgan) MORGAN

• Native Advocacy
• Photography
• Education
Inducted: 2011
Deceased: 2022
Fairbanks
LAEL (Morgan) MORGAN
Lael began her journalism career as a reporter for the Malden, Massachusetts, Press, then moved to Alaska in 1959. She worked for Alaska Methodist University then moved into advertising. In the mid ’60s, Lael worked for a time in canneries, then was hired as a photojournalist at the Juneau Empire, covered crime, politics and the legislature for the Fairbanks Daily New Miner and Jessen’s Weekly and freelanced for the Tundra Times and other publications around the state. In 1968, Lael worked at the Los Angeles Times, then returned to Alaska for assignments with the Tundra Times, National Geographic, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor, and Alaska Northwest Publishing.
She joined the Department of Journalism and Broadcasting, University of Alaska Fairbanks, in 1988, where she taught writing, photography, and multimedia. Since 1999, Lael has been managing editor, then publisher of the Casco Bay Weekly, an alternative newspaper in Portland, Maine, and served as visiting professor at University of Texas at Arlington. Chicago Review Press has slated her book “Wanton West: Madams, Money, Murder, and the Wild Women of Montana’s Frontier” for publication in June 2011, and Epicenter Press is publishing her biography of an Inupiat Eskimo star “From Tundra to Tinseltown, The Ray Wise Mala Story”, in the spring. Although currently in Maine, Lael continues to serve as Acquisitions Editor for Epicenter Press. She also has coordinated the Ray Wise Mala Film festival in conjunction with the celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Alaska Native Land Claim Settlement Act managed by the ANCSA@40 EVENTS Committee.
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