Master's (Thesis) Student, Arctic & Subarctic Futures, School of Arctic and Subarctic Studies

The Master's in Arctic & Subarctic Futures program offers me an opportunity to continue the path of learning forged by my grandmother, Eva Sikoak Baikie, born at Rigolet, married at Mulligan, and finally a resident of Happy Valley.

Grandma attended residential schooling from the age of 12 at Muddy Bay, and subsequently at the St. Anthony school where she obtained a teaching certificate with Honours. Although her break from traditional Inuit cultural and land-based activities caused some reckoning of our Inuit identity in the lives of my grandmother, mother, and me, this program sources validating energy from the land through which we are tied by kinship through people, non-human species, and place.

The Inuit Bachelor of Education Degree program, which was offered by Nunatsiavut in partnership with Memorial University, granted my first degree, and I am currently employed as an education policy advisor for a national organization.

I aspire to do research that honours and activates our kinships as the approach humanity needs for our universal survival.