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The Daughter of a Trailblazer Finds Her Own Path
Nina Larsson has created a renewable energy company, helped launch an indigenous youth collective and is working towards improving early childhood development in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
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Follow via RSSNina Larsson has created a renewable energy company, helped launch an indigenous youth collective and is working towards improving early childhood development in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
Angela Nuliayok Rudolph, a graduate student at the University of Alaska’s Fairbanks campus and a Jane Glassco Northern Fellow, is focused on improving education for Inuit students to help them avoid the struggles she faced herself.
The new head of the International Arctic Science Committee wants to see more teamwork among scientists of different stripes in the North – and says his own work studying glaciers is driven by a desire to better understand the processes that shape our planet.
Anna Reetta Rönkä, a PhD candidate at the University of Oulu, says that Arctic nations can do more to help support the mental well-being of their northern residents.
Erlend Moster Knudsen, an Arctic climate system specialist, spent four months running from Norway to Paris to help spread the word about the impact of climate change on the Arctic.
Katherine Weingartner is an ICF contractor for the United States Global Change Research Program where she supports the development of the National Climate Assessment.
At 29, Jordan Peterson is the youngest-ever vice president of the Gwich’in Tribal Council in Canada’s Northwest Territories. We spoke to him as part of our “Emerging Leaders” series about how he wants Indigenous youths to embrace their culture while looking to the future.
Yellowknife’s Kyla Kakfwi Scott helped start Dene Nahjo, an organization aimed at advancing social and environmental justice for northern peoples and promoting Indigenous leadership.
Mia Bennett travels throughout the Arctic studying transportation infrastructure and natural resource development to understand which projects get approved, how they get done and who’s consulted. We spoke to her as part of our “Emerging Leaders” series.
Jannie Staffansson became an environmental chemist so people would listen to her and to Saami elders about environmental issues. Now she’s a steady voice for Indigenous rights at international climate meetings. We spoke to her as part of our “Emerging Leaders” series.
Esau Sinnok cast a vote in the U.S. presidential election this year for the first time, but already this young Iñupiat leader – as well as being a U.S. Arctic Youth Ambassador – has traveled to Paris for climate change talks and has his eye on Alaska’s governorship.
Meet the people who stand apart when it comes to improving education, fighting climate change, boosting international collaboration and revitalizing Indigenous culture in the Arctic. They are the ones we’ll be watching in the years to come.
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