How about an ice-fishing week? Policy maker rethinks northern workplaces – Nunatsiaq News
Apr 13, 2022
When Patricia Johnson-Castle began working for the Nunatsiavut government in 2019, it was an exciting but intimidating experience.
She had two post-secondary degrees under her belt by the time she reached her mid-twenties, and was a first-time manager who had been named director of policy and planning at the government’s Nain office.
Suddenly, she was tasked with supervising an older male colleague and adjusting to a tightly structured work environment.
While it was exciting for the St. John’s native to work in a place where being Inuit was the norm, being a young Inuk woman in a leadership role sometimes presented its own challenges.
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