Philippe Di Pizzo is an environmental scientist and geographer who has lived and worked in the Canadian north for the past forty years. His journey began in Eeyou Istchee/James Bay, collaborating with the Grand Council of the Cree. He also served in Nunavik with the Kativik Environmental Quality Commission, the Kativik Environmental Advisory Committee, and the Kativik Regional Government, and in Nunavut as Executive Director of the Nunavut Water Board. From 2013 until his retirement in 2019, he was the Executive Director of the Snap Lake Environmental Monitoring Agency. He has been an active board member of the Sahtu Land and Water Board since 2009.

Violet Doolittle was born at Sucker Creek, near Tulita, NT and raised here until the age of sixteen.  A Sahtu beneficiary, she resides and works in Inuvik, NT where she has been for the past 28 years.  She holds diplomas in Social Work and Addiction Studies and currently works as a Residential School Counsellor.  Violet has gladly given 20 years of service to the social field because she cares and enjoys helping people in need.  She is also fluent in the North Slavey language.