Heather Angnatok is an Inuk from Nain, Nunatsiavut, with over 20 years of experience working in her home community to plan, facilitate, and deliver Inuit language and culturally land-based programs. Her extensive work includes organizing summer and winter camps, annual regional youth symposiums, national Inuit youth summits, regional Elder gatherings, traditional sewing workshops, young girls’ empowerment initiatives, youth leadership programs, and career trips, as well as developing a Nunatsiavut youth strategy and revitalizing throat singing and drum dancing. Read more...

Chelsee Arbour, PhD candidate (Settler, she/her), is an archaeologist and cultural heritage researcher who focuses on narrative construction, researcher positionality, and most importantly collaborative knowledge mobilization. She utilizes relational approaches to research to better understand how differing narrative practices story, engage with, and understand Indigenous histories of the ‘deep past’, centering community voices within the larger discourse of how the past is brought into being in the present. Read more...

Scottie Fewer (he/him) was born and raised in Labrador. He holds a carpentry diploma from the College of the North Atlantic, and has a passion for carpentry work. Labrador holds a special place for Scottie, and he enjoys what the Big Land has to offer. Read more...

Jeffrey Gharib (pronounced Gaa-reeb) (he/him) was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. He holds a degree in Computer Programming from Herzing College and a Game Development certificate from Concordia University. Read more...

Courtenay Griffin (Settler, she/her) is a senior communications advisor (strategic priorities) providing support for Memorial University’s Division of Marketing and Communications, Internationalization Office, Labrador Campus and Vice-President (Indigenous). In this role, she uses her experience in strategic communications and relationship-building to support Memorial’s strategic priorities and strengthen efforts to build a positive presence within its communities. Read more...

Ashley (Settler, she/her) is the assistant registrar dedicated to the Labrador Campus and the University’s partnership with Nunavut Arctic College. Her role provides support with developing and navigating programs, policies and academic regulations for success. Read more...

Mckenzie Hutchings (she/her) is a member of the NunatuKavut Community Council and spent her childhood in the communities of Nain and North West River. Mckenzie completed a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Geography and minoring in Sociology at Memorial University's St.Johns Campus in Spring 2021. She is now pursing a Masters of Arctic and Subarctic Futures through the Labrador Campus of Memorial University. Mckenzie's professional experience includes working with youth across the province in education and extracurricular environments. Read more...

Jamie Jackman is a Nunatsiavut Beneficiary who grew up between the communities of Happy Valley-Goose Bay and Hopedale, Labrador. He studied Anthropology at the University of Prince Edward Island and graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts. He then went on to work mainly with Indigenous organizations in areas related to community-based research, youth programming, food security, and more, including the Native Council of Prince Edward Island, Sivunivut Inuit Community Corporation, and the Labrador Friendship Centre. Read more...

Willa Neilsen (Settler, she/her) is based at the Labrador Campus as the Labrador Climate Specialist for CLIMAtlantic. The CLIMAtlantic team works across Atlantic Canada to support incorporating data and projections into decision-making. Willa works with a variety of stakeholders in Labrador to help them access, understand, and use context-appropriate climate data and projections.  Read more...

Originally from New Brunswick, Peggy has called Labrador home since 2008. A lifelong learner, Peggy holds degrees in Psychology (University of New Brunswick) and Social Work (University of Manitoba) and is currently a Master of Social Work candidate at Memorial University. Her graduate research focuses on diverse ways of knowing and being, with a strong emphasis on inclusion and a critical analysis of the colonial industrial complex. Read more...