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DESCRIPTION:Join the Office of Indigenous Initiatives on Zoom as they host 
 environmental\, cultural and human rights advocate Sheila Watt-Cloutier fo
 r Ajuinnata at McGill. Watt-Cloutier will deliver a talk called Re-Imagini
 ng a New Way Forward with Intention and answer questions from the audience
 . \n\nSpeaker bio:\n\nIn 2007\, Watt-Cloutier was nominated for the Nobel 
 Peace Prize for her advocacy work in showing the impact of global climate 
 change on human rights — especially in the Arctic\, where it is felt more 
 immediately\, and more dramatically\, than anywhere else in the world. Wat
 t-Cloutier is an Officer of the Order of Canada\, and the recipient of the
  Aboriginal Achievement Award\, the UN Champion of the Earth Award\, the N
 orwegian Sophie Prize\, the Jack P. Blaney award for Dialogue\, and the Ri
 ght Livelihood Award\, which is widely considered the 'Nobel Alternative'.
 \n\nFrom 1995-2002\, Watt-Cloutier was elected the Canadian President of t
 he Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). She was later elected in 2002 to becom
 e the International Chair of the ICC\, representing the 155\,000 Inuit fro
 m Canada\, Greenland\, Alaska\, and Russia — she held this post until 2006
 .\n\nWidely recognized for her influential work\, Watt-Cloutier gave a TED
 x Talk in 2016 titled “Human Trauma and Climate Trauma as One”. She is als
 o the author of the memoir\, The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Pr
 otecting Her Culture\, the Arctic and the Whole Planet\, which was nominat
 ed for the 2016 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Shaughn
 essy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. In 2017\, the book was shortlisted
  for CBC Canada Reads\, defended by Chantal Kreviazuk. Watt-Cloutier was a
 lso shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.\n
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SUMMARY:Re-Imagining a New Way Forward with Intention
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