Victoria Tukkiapik takes over the chairperson of the Nunavik Board of Health and Social Services after previous chairperson Shirley White-Dupuis resigned last week. (Photo courtesy of NRBHSS)
Nunavik health board elects Victoria Tukkiapik new chairperson
Board of directors picks replacement for Shirley White-Dupuis, who resigned last week
Nunavik’s health board picked executive committee member Victoria Tukkiapik as the organization’s new chairperson, following the resignation of Shirley White-Dupuis last week.
Formerly the council member from Quaqtaq, Tukkiapik now takes up the role of chairperson at the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, following a board vote on Feb. 11.
Tukkiapik’s vacant position will be filled by Mary Johannes, according to a press release by the health board Monday.
Tukkiapik’s experience includes being a council member for the Northern Village of Quaqtaq and a first responder there, a biography the health board provided said. She was the secretary-treasurer for the audit committee, led by the health board’s board of directors. She was also a dental assistant and an elder’s coordinator.
She speaks three languages — Inuktitut, English and French.
Her approach to being chairperson of the health board will focus on the needs of youth and elders, continuing positive change in respect to Inuit way and Inuit knowledge.
Tukkiapik’s board-issued biography said she wants to set an example for youth by showing that participation and being ambitious is not gated by age, pointing that one of her greatest gifts given by her parents was her critical thinking.
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