“Research is about collective responsibility; ‘we can only go so far before we see a face - our Elder cleaning a fish, our sister living on the edge in East Vancouver, and hear a voice whispering, are you helping us?”
Kovach, 36
My Background
Tungasugiit. I am an Inuk from Nunavut. My mother’s side are Inuit from the North Baffin region, stretching from Pond Inlet, Somerset Island, and to present day Taloyoak. I am also German, through my great grandfather on my mother’s side, who was a whaler and married my great grandmother. My father’s side are Inuit from Inukjuaq, Nunavik. I am Enooyaq for my late aunt, and I grew up in Iqaluit and Pond Inlet.
