Labrador Institute's third international Indigenous Intern selected
Michelle Saunders, a 22-year-old recent Memorial University bachelor of science graduate (with a concentration in ecology and conservation) is an Inuit woman from Happy Valley-Goose Bay, whose family is originally from Davis Inlet, Rigolet, and other Inuit communities in Labrador.
The internship will take shape in the form of a two-month stint starting in January 2019 in Rovaniemi, Finland, with the University of the Arctic (UArctic) International Secretariat located at the University of Lapland, and another two months in Tromsø, Norway, with the Arctic Council Indigenous People’s Secretariat (IPS).
“I’m really looking forward to meeting other Indigenous youth, researchers and people of Finland and Norway and learning more about their culture whilst also showing mine,” said Ms. Saunders. “As well, working with UArctic and the IPS will be an amazing opportunity to see what they do at these organizations and how this can help me with my career.”
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