Journeys For The Curious
Cultural/Art Educators
Journeys For The Curious
Cultural/Art Educators
Adam Ruzzo
Musician, Expedition Team
Adam is a long-time musician with an eclectic performing background, an avid traveller, and passionate about all things history and culture!
Aka Simonsen
Historian, Archaeologist, Inuit Cultural Educator
Aka’s love for the Arctic manifests in her passions for communicating Arctic history, archaeology, culture, and nature.
Alan Doyle
Author, Musician
Alan is an actor, author, and the lead singer of Great Big Sea. He revels in all things Newfoundland and will happily “talk the face off you” about his home.
Aleqa Hammond
Inuit Cultural Educator
Aleqa studied teaching and has worked in various roles including a human rights and environmental organization, Inuit Circumpolar Council, and within the tourism industry. She was also Greenland's first female Prime Minister.
Andrea Brazeau
Inuit Cultural Educator
Andrea Brazeau is an Inuk from Kangiqsualujjuaq, Nunavik. She is passionate about her culture, the land, and education. She loves sharing her culture with people who are keen to learn.
Andrew Sookrah
Artist
Andrew is an elected member of the Society of Canadian Artists (Lifetime), the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, the Ontario Society of Artists and the Portrait Society Of Canada.
Anne Marie Rodgers
Cultural Educator
Anne Marie is a native Irish speaker from Tory Island. She works as a rural development consultant and an independent television producer specializing in documentaries.
Antje Springmann
Ecotherapist, Fibre Arts Program Ambassador
Antje is a counsellor/psychotherapist whose practice is rooted in fostering the human-nature bond that lies at the core of our emotional, spiritual, and psychological wellbeing.
Antoine Pigeon-Bourque
Musician & Québécois Cultural Educator
Antoine is a classically trained Québécois musician specializing in piano-accordion and French-Canadian traditional music.
Ashley Dicker
Inuit Cultural Educator
Ashley is an Inuk from Nain, Nunatsiavut, who now lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Ashley is very passionate about helping Indigenous peoples break down barriers to accessing services and helping Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous people better understand each other.
Ashley Kilabuk-Savard
Expedition Team
Ashley is an Inuk artist from Iqaluit, Nunavut. She writes poetry, short stories and film scripts, leads acting and storytelling workshops and creates sealskin jewelry and accessories.
Barb Parsons-Sooley
Newfoundland Cultural Educator, Kayak Guide
Barb is from St. John’s Newfoundland and Labrador and is passionate about hiking, kayaking, and sharing outdoor experiences with others.
Barney Bentall
Musician
Barney is an award-winning musician and cattle rancher living in Cariboo, British Columbia.
Berda (Birdie) Larsen
Inuit Cultural Educator, Filmmaker
Birdie is an emerging Inuk filmmaker from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).
Biinia Chemnitz Frederiksen
Inuit Cultural Educator
Biinia hails from Nuuk, Greenland and is the most content anytime he can put his hands to good use, whether it’s working as a Helicopter Maintenance Engineer or hunting and fishing for food.