Dr. Karla Jessen Williamson is a Kalaaleq, born and raised in the lands and waters of the West Coast of Greenland. An Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at the University of Saskatchewan, she is the first Inuk to be tenured at a Canadian university. Doctoral degree from the University of Aberdeen, UK. Specializes in Indigenous epistemology and the experiences of colonial systems and is well regarded locally, nationally, and internationally. She has two adult children and three Inuktitut-speaking grandchildren.