Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson is a kalaaleq (Greenland Inuk) – born and grew up in West coast of Greenland. An Associate Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Saskatchewan, she the first Inuk to be tenured at Canadian university. Doctoral degree from University of Aberdeen, UK. She specializes on Indigenous epistemology and experiences of the colonial systems and well appreciated locally, nationally and internationally. She has two adult children and three Inuktitut speaking grandchildren.