The Observer, July 2007
Fresh face joins staff
Emily Polley has become the citizens’ council’s newest project manager assistant. She started the job, at the Anchorage office, in late May.
Polley received a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, last December. She decided to make Alaska her home after spending three months last summer as an intern for the American Red Cross in Anchorage.
She describes herself as “non-profit minded” since elementary school, when she volunteered with the American Cancer Society.
“After graduation I knew I wanted to work in a field where I was working toward a greater cause,” she said of her decision to take the job with the council.
Her husband, Ben is a member of the Army’s 1-501 Parachute Infantry Regiment. Though his official duty station is Fort Richardson, he’s serving as a machine gunner in Iraq at present.