Programme

Find out more about who the Sharing Circle 2023 speakers were:

• Pauliina Feodoroff - Finland

  Pauliina Feodoroff is a Skolt Sámi leader, playwright, film maker and an artist. She worked as the President of the Sámi Council 2007-2009 and is currently the Coordinator for Eastern Sámi territories of Snowchange work. She leads the Näätämö catchment area co-management work.

• Tero Mustonen - Finland

  Tero Mustonen is the President of Snowchange at the moment. He is a winter seiner and adjunct professor (Human Geography). He has been working in Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sámi territories as well as Russian North since 1999. He served recently as a Lead Author for the AR6 of the IPCC. With the Snowchange Cooperative, he is part of the Arctic PASSION EU project and builds the bridge between the project and the Indigenous partner communities collaborating with the project.

• Olivia Rempel - Norway

  Olivia Rempel is a documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist working at GRID-Arendal, where she does everything from producing, shooting and editing documentaries, to guest teaching science communication courses. She holds a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, with prior undergraduate work in environmental studies. Olivia has had a variety of media jobs, from logistics and communication work at Students on Ice, an educational polar expedition organization, to leading open-source investigations that combat disinformation at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center and working on documentaries that have screened at film festivals around the world.

• Miina Sanila - Finland

  Miina Sanila is the daughter of Toini Sanila who build our accomodation house by herself taking care of her three childs (Sanila's Reindeer Farm). The Sanila family hosted our group for a week and shared stories and laughter with us.

• Sarah Strand - Norway

  Sarah Strand is the Executive Director of the Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) and finalizes her PhD on the topic of permafrost thermal dynamics at The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) and the University of Oslo.

• Michael Karcher - Germany

  Michael Karcher is a physical oceanographer and the scientific coordinator of the EU project Arctic PASSION.

• Hanna-Maaria Kiprianoff - Finland

  Hanna-Maaria Kiprianoff is a Skolt Sámi singer and told about the traditional singing of Leu'dd and dances.

• Harmony Wayner - United States

  Harmony Wayner is a tribal member of Naknek Native Village, a commercial fisher in the Bristol Bay salmon fleet, and a marine scientist focused on social-ecological systems to promote Indigenous values and well-being in fisheries. She is an Arctic Frontiers Emerging Leader and Alaska Sea Grant Fellow. Harmony has a Master of Resource Management from the University Centre of the Westfjords in Iceland and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Alaska Southeast. She is most passionate about elevating the voices of Indigenous communities by integrating Western science and Indigenous knowledge in resource management. Currently, she is working as an Indigenous Liaison at the International Arctic Research Center.

• Tahnee Prior - Canada

  Tahnee Prior is the co-founder Women of the Arctic (WoA), a Finland-based non-profit association whose mission it is to raise awareness for, support of, and maintain a focus on women’s and gender-related issues in the Arctic. Together with her colleague, Gosia Smieszek, Tahnee co-leads WoA's research on the gender-dimension of Arctic observing systems in Arctic PASSION. Tahnee recently completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University and holds a Ph.D. in Global Governance from the University of Waterloo.

• Kaisu Mustonen - Finland

  Kaisu Mustonen is the Head of the Biodiversity work under Snowchange. She is a human geographer who has been working in Alaska, Northern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sámi territories as well as Russian North since 2000. She specializes in gendered biodiversity knowledge. Currently she is working on the Living Maps of the Skolt Sámi people and the Landscape Rewilding Programme.

• Sharing Circle participants

  Sharing Circle participants who were speakers: Èlise Brown-Dussault, Pavel Tkach, Louise Mercer, Lauren Clavelle, Emma Bullock, Minetta Westerlund, Fabian Seemann