Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq

Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq is a tribal member of the Noorvik Native Community in NW Alaska and is an assistant professor of professional and technical writing at Virginia Tech. Her research combines her academic background in both the humanities and physical sciences and currently centers on community-driven goals, such as advocating for equitable Arctic research practices, creating accessible online databases of Inuit knowledges, developing computational linguistics techniques to assist with Iñupiatun language revitalization, and developing natural language processing techniques to process ecological and cultural data from Inuit narratives. She is an author on the National Climate Assessment 5, Alaska Chapter, and is a leader for the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee’s (IARPC) Participatory Research and Indigenous Leadership in Research collaborative team. Dr. Itchuaqiyaq also serves on several boards, including the Caleb Scholars Program, Arctic Research Consortium of the United States (ARCUS), Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, and Communication Design Quarterly.