Exciting annoucement regarding a new member of the AJE team. Welcome Johnny!
Johnny is an Inuit from Igluligaarjuk, in Nunavut, and has grown up hunting, fishing and camping with his elders as Inuit have for centuries. Johnny works with various organisations that address mental health conditions through counselling and traditional activities. Johnny is a keen volunteer and youth mentor regularly teaching Arctic games and traditions at youth institutions as one of the most successful Inuit Games athletes of his generation.
He is an active Arctic Ambassador and holds Arctic Stewardship for ‘Students on Ice’, an international student development programme. In February 2012 he was awarded The Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Governor General, on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen, for efforts towards “improving the health and wellbeing of Nunavummiut”. Johnny represents an important cultural link in the Education and Outreach Programme of the expedition.
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