Carla Williams grew up in Crosby, Minnesota. She lived in Alaska for 40 years, in both Anchorage and Fairbanks, and graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She spent most of her career working in Alaska’s oil and gas industry. Williams and her husband, whom she met in the mid-80s on a PRICE/CIRI construction project on the North Slope, retired in 2014 to Sedona, Arizona, where she is a hiking guide. Having been in the extraordinary situation 45 years ago of being paid the same as her male counterparts – equal pay for equal work – she now hopes young women coming into the industry will have the same opportunities.
