Katherine Minich

Katherine Minich comes to the program with an Indigenous lens, health science and sociology backgrounds. Her ancestry hails from the community of Pangnitung, Nunavut. Undergraduate university studies were finished at Concordia University in sociology, a Masters in Health Sience at the University of Toronto and currently enrolled in the PhD Policy Studies program at X University. Working in and for Indigenous non-profit and research organizations, Katherine is a Bruce Fellow, OGS and Inspire award reciepent. Katherine is drawn to areas of policy research that includes Inuit-Canada history, Indigneous informed approaches for policies and programming in environment (freshwater), language, well-being & health. Policy settings of interest includes Inuit communities, the Arctic, Indigneous organizations and self-governments.