Emmanuelle Gauchier
Emmanuelle Gauchier holds a bachelor's degree in social science from the Université de Montréal. This led her to begin her career in Montreal's youth centers. From 2011 to 2013, she will work with young offenders and young girls in shelters. In 2013, she decided to push her limits and move to Nunavik to become a parenting skills assessor for Inuit communities. In 2016, following several suicide crises in Puvirnituq, her adopted village, Emmanuelle decided to create a non-profit organization that will have as a project a self-esteem camp for young Inuit teenagers in the region. Since 2016, this organization offers a unique experience to young girls of the region in the form of a 4-week day camp where they practice Inuit traditions and non-traditional practices that are part of our society. Ms. Gauchier is continuing her education by studying to obtain her social worker's license and to be able to better respond to the needs of her clients in difficulty.
Her heart is in the north and she is committed to the Nunavik communities.
Nora Chénier-Jones
Nora Chénier-Jones is an entrepreneur and mother of five, who has a certification in accounting and studies at McGill University. She started 'Les Sports Vida Sana' a non-profit organization with her spouse in 2013. Les Sports Vida Sana's mission is to provide services to all family members to create a balance between staying physically fit and having fun. Following the success of staying physically fit, she realized that there was also a need among the youth, so she undertook sports camps for the youth of the Outremont and Mont-Royal neighborhood. In 2019 Chris Boucher (NBA player) joined to create a new program to promote youth and basketball together. Ms. Chénier-Jones was a moderator and panelist at the first edition of the International Black Women's Salon and since 2017 she has been on the executive board of Projet Montréal.
Theresa Etok
Theresa Etok is 22-year-old Inuk from Puvirnituq, Quebec.
In her early years, she went to school at Iguarsivik but later finished her high school in Montreal. Since then, she completed the Nunavik Sivunitsavut program and attended John Abbott College in the social science program.
Theresa is currently working on the Uvigartunut project and has been working for Girls Inc since 2018. She is also currently employed as a facilitator for Family Council. Family Council is a new program in Nunavik that allows families that benefit from services like Social Services and Youth Protection to gather, discuss and find solutions for the best interest of the child.