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Reflecting on the Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship In 2015, I completed the Jane Glassco Northern Fellowship and received my certificate of completion in my hometown of Iqaluit, Nunavut, where our last gathering was hosted in the spring. The Fellowship made a difference in my life and my certificate of completion hangs on my wall right beside my bachelor’s degree.
The Gordon Foundation administers the fellowship program and “is a private, philanthropic foundation based in Toronto, Ontario. The Foundation undertakes research, leadership development and public dialogue so that public policies in Canada reflect a commitment to collaborative stewardship of our freshwater
Fellows in Iqaluit at the last gathering. L to R: Itoah Scott-Enns, Moses Hernandez, Nina Larsson, Mitchell White and myself, in front. © The Gordon Foundation
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resources and to a people-driven, equitable and evolving North.” I initially applied to the first fellowship cohort when I was in my second year of journalism studies at Carleton University. The program intrigued me immediately upon learning of it. I was not accepted to the first round of
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