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Sheila Watt-Cloutier

Environmental, Cultural, and Human Rights Advocate

Sheila Watt-Cloutier
TEDxYYC: Human Trauma and Climate Trauma As One
Climate Change and Human Rights
Can150 - The Future of Canada's Arctic
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Science Centre World Congress - Environmental Changes
Interview - Rockburn Presents
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
TEDxYYC: Human Trauma and Climate Trauma As One
Climate Change and Human Rights
Can150 - The Future of Canada's Arctic
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Science Centre World Congress - Environmental Changes
Interview - Rockburn Presents

Nobel Peace Prize nominee Sheila Watt-Cloutier is in the business of transforming public opinion into public policy. Experienced in working with global decision-makers for more than a decade, Watt-Cloutier offers a new model for 21st century leadership. She speaks with passion and urgency on the issues of today — the environment, the economy, foreign policy, global health, and sustainability — not as separate concerns, but as a deeply interconnected whole. At a time when people are seeking solutions, direction, and a sense of hope, this global leader provides a big picture of where we are and where we’re headed.

In 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. Watt-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 Norwegian Sophie Prize, the Jack P. Blaney award for Dialogue, and the Right Livelihood Award, which is widely considered the “Nobel Alternative”.

From 1995-2002, Watt-Cloutier was elected the Canadian President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC). She was later elected in 2002 to become the International Chair of the ICC, representing the 155,000 Inuit from Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and Russia — she held this post until 2006.

Widely recognized for her influential work, Watt-Cloutier gave a TEDx Talk in 2016 titled “Human Trauma and Climate Trauma as One”. She is also the author of the memoir, The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic and the Whole Planet, which was nominated for the 2016 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. In 2017, the book was shortlisted for CBC Canada Reads, defended by Chantal Kreviazuk. Watt-Cloutier was also shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize.

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Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

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  • We were so please to host your visit last week and wanted to extend a huge THANK YOU for coming! It was very interesting to hear about your story, your experiences and your work and how ‘The Right to be Cold’ has impacted the Inuit people. The slides you showed gave us a close look at the land, culture and the people that we could not have gained any other way.  We had so much positive feedback and we already have a list of people who wish to read your book from for our library. Thank you for a truly memorable day and I hope that we have the opportunity to invite you back.

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