ITK Year of the Inuit Ambassador

Joseph Qiqut Huyer Upton & ITK Communications Officer Melissa Irwin at the 2010 Students on Ice expedition launch

Joseph Qiqut Huyer Upton is Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami's Year of the Inuit Ambassador aboard the 2010 Students on Ice Arctic Expedition, he is an Inuk from Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, currently living in Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

Each year hundreds of students from across Canada apply for positions on the annual Students On Ice expeditions; Joseph was chosen as the ITK Year of the Inuit Ambassador as he has an outgoing and adventurous personality that is suited to this type of group learning expedition, and because he has proven that he is able to create opportunities and then work with them.