Jodie Lane

Director of Education for the Nunatsiavut Government Department of Education and Economic Development

Jodie Lane is a Beneficiary of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement and was born and raised in the Inuit community of Makkovik. She has spent her entire 24-year career with the Nunatsiavut Government (and former Labrador Inuit Association) in the education division.  Ms. Lane is passionate about infusing Inuit language and culture into curriculum and played a key role in developing the Labrador Inuit Society & Culture high school course in collaboration with the former NLESD, as well as the Inuit Bachelor of Education program in collaboration with the Labrador Institute of Memorial University.  The former helps fill the void in Inuit-specific learning in Nunatsaivut schools (and beyond), while the latter prepares teachers to teach through an Inuit lens by using curriculum infused with Inuit cultural content.

Jodie is currently enrolled in the Arctic and Subarctic Futures program at the Labrador Campus of Memorial University as a PhD student with her focus on developing a Nunatsiavut specific governance model for the K-12 system.