02/24/2022
✨🌟Meet the Speakers Part 2: the Keynote Speaker of the 26th Annual Symposium!🌟✨
Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Officer of the Order of Canada, is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee in the business of transforming public opinion into public policy. With a focus on solutions, Watt-Cloutier brings the realities of the Arctic―where the Inuit people today face profound challenges to their environment, economy, health and cultural well-being―to light. Because her Inuit culture faces the most extreme challenges of globalization, Watt-Cloutier speaks from firsthand experience, and couples that with her extensive experiences as a global leader.
Widely recognized for her influential work, Watt-Cloutier was the Canadian President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) from 1995-2002. From 2002-2006, she served as the International Chair of the ICC, representing the 155,000 Inuit from Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and Russia. In 2016, she gave a TEDx Talk titled “Human Trauma and Climate Trauma as One” and she is also the author of the memoir, The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet.
To learn more, please visit her speaker profile:
https://www.speakers.ca/speakers/sheila-watt-cloutier/
