Vivi Vold (she/they), Vivi Vold (she/they), nominated by Naja Dyrendom Graugaard. She is an Indigenous, critical, courageous, decolonial, and feminist scholar, artist and filmmaker from Kalaallit Nunaat. She is finishing her PhD now, from Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland), currently residing in Denmark.

Her research focuses on Inuit knowledge, land relations and Indigenizing academia and knowledge production, and she insists on doing Inuit research on Inuit terms, despite the systemic and systematic challenges to do so. She takes an arts-based approach to knowledge production and has created a methodology of community peer review through her own curated physical and virtual exhibitions. She is also the filmmaker of the courageous documentary “From Where We View the World”, based on her master thesis (https://filmfreeway.com/Fromwhereweviewtheworld) that shows the gap between Western scientists and Indigenous knowledge holders.

On her website (https://vivivold.com) you can see that she is a terrific photographer, or listen to a podcast on “unsettling and disrupting familiar discourses” that is part of her PhD, entitled: Lets meet outside in silence.

Vivi is a dedicated advocate for Inuit self-determination, she was part of the creation of the Inuit Nunaat Fund as part of the advisory board, an Indigenous-led fund centering Inuit worldviews in the fight against inequality, and works with Sámi and Indigenous colleagues in the EU Horizon project BIRGEJUPMI, advancing Inuit knowledge in cross-Indigenous research across the Arctic.

She is inspired by the resilience of Inuit ancestors and the spirit of her community. Indigenous methodologies and practices cannot simply be put inside a western way of doing things – this requires respect of generational wisdom and practices, disseminating knowledge beyond western limitations. Her work challenges the structures of Western science through Inuit-led ethics, land-based methodology, and relational accountability.