Lidia Lippi Selkregg was an Italian geologist and professor of regional planning at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
10 Facts About Lidia Selkregg
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Lidia Selkregg helped promote earthquake safety, land preservation, and economic development in the Anchorage area.
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Lidia Selkregg's father died when she was three years old, and she lived in Italy and North Africa with her mother and two brothers.
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Lidia Selkregg moved to Alaska in 1958, where she worked as a planner in Anchorage.
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Lidia Selkregg wrote the Economic Development Administration Grant for the Port of Anchorage, and she fought to protect land for the Anchorage watershed.
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Lidia Selkregg worked to get the population of Valdez to move away from the previous site of their town.
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From 1971 to 1985, Lidia Selkregg was a professor of resources and socioeconomic planning and regional planning at the University of Alaska Anchorage, where she developed a graduate planning program.
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Lidia Selkregg was the editor of the "Environmental Atlas of the Greater Anchorage Area Borough," published by the University of Alaska in 1972.
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Lidia Selkregg served on the Advisory Committee to the Carter White House Conference on Balanced National Growth and Economic Development; she served in the Anchorage Assembly.
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Lidia Selkregg was inducted into the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame in 2009.