In this episode we listen to five leaders of Youth in the Arctic discuss the future of the Arctic. The panel consists of Eben Hopson, North Slope Liaison, Ukpeaġvik, Iñupiat Corporation, Daria Makhotina, Chairperson, Barents Regional Youth Council, Enni Similä, Project Worker, The Saami Council, Pétur Halldórsson, Founder, Arctic Youth Network and Victoria Qutuuq Buschman, Postdoctoral Researcher, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Greenland Institute of Natural Resources. The panel discussion is followed by a Q&A from the audience. The dialogue was moderated by Jack Durkee, Program Associate, Wilson Center‘s Polar Institute. This event originally took place at the 2021 Arctic Circle Assembly in Reykjavík, Iceland and was organzed in collaboration with the Polar Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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