Susan Stark Christianson
Author Susan Stark Christianson is an award-winning former journalist. She is the owner of Christianson Communications, the Women's Voices Project and Walton Group Publications. She is also the author of the book "Women's Voices: The Wisdom of the Grandmothers" and the producer and director the award-winning documentary film "The Wisdom of the Grandmothers," which aired on PBS and FNX stations around the country. She is currently producing and directing the upcoming documentary film "Indigenous Prophecy Today," interviews with wisdom keepers around the world. In 2018, Susan was honored to receive the Rasmuson Foundation Fellowship Award to support her work. She is a proud mother of two daughters and a grandmother to two wonderful boys.
Robert Jacobsen
For more than 25 years Bob Jacobsen presided over the airline known as Wings of Alaska. This book is in large part Bob's story told to Susan through the eyes of many others, yet Bob believes it is much more in that it honors the survivors and victims of the company's only fatal accident. It also recognizes the outstanding employees and community members who stepped up to help. Bob authored the prologue and epilogue and assisted throughout in assuring its accuracy. Bob opened his files, helped arrange interviews and agreed to its telling in order to positively influence the far-too-many aviation accidents still happening in Alaska and across the nation. Though he and his partners sold Wings of Alaska in 2008 to a Portland, Oregon company, Bob continues to be involved in Alaska aviation and tourism. He and his lovely bride Darlene and their two sons continue to live in Juneau, Alaska. Both young Jacobsen men work in the Alaska aviation industry.