Kt Miller
I am a PhD student working on a collaborative research project with the community of Kinngait, Nunavut, the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Carleton University under the co-supervision of Dr. Vivian Nguyen and Dr. Dominique Henri. Our research aims to elevate Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit knowledge) and use mixed methods to explore the socioeconomics, social-ecological systems, and relationships between mitiq (eider ducks) and Inuit harvesters and their families. Developed through coproduction with the community, we will study the cost of harvest to understand how continued access to mitiq as country food supports local food security and wellbeing.
I earned a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies from Royal Roads University, where I used community-based participatory research, coproduction of knowledge and mixed methods from Indigenous ways of knowing and social science. My master’s thesis, Indigenous Knowledge of Human-polar Bear Coexistence in Churchill, Manitoba, used storytelling as a method and built upon emerging audio-based qualitative analysis with arts-based podcast outputs.
Prior to completing my MA, I worked with the non-profit Polar Bears International in a variety of capacities for over 12 years.
I grew up on the traditional lands of the Apsaalooké, Salish Kootenai, Blackfoot, Crow and Cheyenne in present-day Bozeman, Montana, where I spent my youth working as an adventure photographer, filmmaker and mountain guide. I most recently find joy in exploring frozen high mountain lakes on backcountry ice skates and having solo living room dance parties in my vanilla leopard overalls.