Authors and Contributors

Marya Rozanova Smith

Dr. Marya S. Rozanova-Smith is Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University (GWU) and Advisor to the Chancellor at the Russian State Hydrometeorological University (RSHU).

In addition to her work in academia, she participated in a wide range of social projects. She was a founder and chairwoman of the Center for Civil, Social, Scientific, and Cultural Initiatives “STRATEGIA” (2007–2015), and also served as a Galina Starovoitova Fellow for Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center.

Since 2014, Dr. Rozanova-Smith has been (co-)organizing international academic projects on the wide range of Arctic issues that brought together representatives of social and natural sciences, Indigenous communities, and policymakers. She has also initiated educational programs and informal surveys conducted in close collaboration with Indigenous communities and their leaders in Russian Arctic regions. She is currently teaching the course The Arctic in International Affairs at the GWU.

Dr. Rozanova-Smith’s research interests include Arctic governance, Indigenous empowerment, diversity, and women's participation in politics and government in the Arctic.

“Born and raised in a near-polar city of St. Petersburg, I’ve always been amazed about the enchanting power of the North and truly fascinated to travel across the Arctic, learn from Indigenous peoples, work with a young generation of northerners. And that’s how I got into gender studies.

My recent field research on youth and urban sustainability in the Russian Arctic supported by the PIRE project was not initially focused on gender. Yet it soon revealed gender differences in students’ career preferences and that gender-related imposed choices of professions are more prevalent among females. Even though they had great potential for professional growth and future empowerment, many emphasized the gap between personal aspirations and realities. Female students who aspired to be geologists, policewomen, ecologists, architects or prosecutors, admitted that they were more likely to become teachers, nurses or first-line managers, etc. In many ways, males also experienced a pressure of a “path dependency,” especially those from Indigenous communities.

My personal hope is that the Gender Equality Report and its policy-relevant recommendations based on successful gender policies and practices of empowerment, will contribute to strengthening gender equality across the Arctic. And ultimately, it will support the Arctic youth in unlocking their potential and encourage them to follow their own dreams and aspirations.”

Andrey Petrov

Andrey N. Petrov is ARCTICenter Director and Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Northern Iowa, USA. Dr. Petrov is an economic and social geographer who specializes in Arctic economy, regional development and post-Soviet society, with an emphasis on the Indigenous Peoples and local communities in Russia and other circumpolar countries. His current research is focused on regions of the Arctic and concerns regional development, spatial organization, and restructuring of peripheral economies, human wellbeing, dynamics of social-ecological systems and sustainable development. He has published on issues pertaining to socio-economic change, development, and demographic dynamics of Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, relationships between communities and extractive industry, sustainability science and sustainable development in the Arctic. Dr. Petrov is the President of the International Arctic Social Sciences Association (IASSA) and Chair of the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC) Social and Human Working Group.

“The publication that inspired my interest in gender issues in the Arctic, and gender equality in particular, was the Arctic Human Development Report II (2014). AHDR II, which I co-authored, had gender as one of the cross-cutting themes, and it was evident that we just started to scratch the surface in respect to economic, social, political and other urgent issues that deal with gender gaps and inequalities. GEA is an opportunity to start filling in these knowledge areas and, hopefully, addressing the gaps themselves through policies and action.”

Varvara Korkina Williams

Kumandin Indigenous scholar, working with Indigenous entrepreneurship, cultural economy and sustainable development. She is a project coordinator at the ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa. Varvara is an Indigenous youth and human rights activist with interests in dynamics of Indigenous cultures and community well-being, and cultural economy. Her thesis was based on her experiences, looking at cultural economy as an opportunity for the sustainable development of Indigenous communities. She currently leads the project Arctic Young Indigenous Leaders and has worked with Indigenous youth in Russia from 2010, including projects on the arts, cultural identity of Indigenous youth in big cities, split identity of Indigenous youth, and cultural rights. Varvara was also a trainer for the Summer school for Young Leaders and has been the coordinator of Russian Indigenous groups in various projects. Varvara's research has looked cultural economy through a solution-oriented approach, especially for women. Her research results were successfully implemented by a young female entrepreneur, in the Altai republic. This was a local business who hired victims of domestic violence, older women from remote villages or vulnerable young girls without higher education, to produce locally sourced product.

“My work with Indigenous Youth from Russia showed me that economic empowerment has not yet been achieved, especially for indigenous young women. For instance, if we talk about cultural economy, indigenous men will take cultural items to sell during political events and say that it is for the economic development of their community, while the women would stay in their communities and have no access to the money flow. On the other hand, indigenous men suffer more from the loss of traditional lands because they cannot continue traditional occupations. This is why I became involved with the gender empowerment theme and I am happy to be a part of the team for this important report.”

Joanna Absalonsen

Joanna Absalonsen holds a Master’s in Cross-Cultural Studies from the University of Copenhagen and works as an employment consultant and mentor in the City of Copenhagen.

Raised in Denmark but with Greenlandic roots, she has a genuine interest in culture, education and gender issues in Greenland and the Arctic area, an academic background in cross-cultural and minority studies, working experience from indigenous rights and youth NGOs and a solid professional experience within counselling and mentoring.

She is currently contributing to the Young Arctic Leaders in Research & Policy program, led by professor Andrey Petrov and Varvara Korkina at the ARCTICenter, University of Northern Iowa, USA, by conducting a qualitative research project in cooperation with Inuit youth studying in Denmark focusing on cross-cultural barriers in further education.

Rebecca Alty

Rebecca Alty became the 15th Mayor of Yellowknife when she was sworn into office on November 5, 2018. Prior to being elected as Mayor, she served as a Yellowknife City Councillor for two terms, from 2012 - 2018, and worked in communications and community relations for the Diavik Diamond Mine, NGO's, and the Government of the Northwest Territories. Outside of work, she enjoys walking, gardening and traveling.

Steven Arnfjord

Steven Arnfjord holds a Ph.D. in Arctic Societies and is currentlige an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of the Social Sciences at Ilisimatusarfik (The University of Greenland) in Nuuk. He researches and teaches in the areas of social policy, social work, housing, poverty, homelessness and the history of social welfare in Greenland. In addition he leads NoINI, an advocacy groups for people living without housing in Nuuk.

Charlene Apok

Charlene is Iñupiaq, her family is from White Mountain and Golovin, AK. She is mother to Evan Lukluan. Charlene has served in many spaces as an advocate for Indigenous womxn, Indigenous sovereignty, climate justice and Indigenous rights to health and wellbeing. Charlene is a lifelong learner in both her cultural traditions and decolonizing academia. She earned her B.A in American Ethnic Studies with a minor in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, an M.A in Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development with a focus on circumpolar health. She is currently a PhD candidate in Indigenous Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks where her dissertation title is Alaska Native Men’s Voices: Tracking Indigenous Masculinities through Indigenous Gender Constructs. Charlene gratefully resides in Anchorage, Alaska on the territories of the Dena'ina peoples. Here she has taught the Iñupiaq language and is part of Kingikmuit dance group with her son son.

“In our culture we are taught to become ‘real’ and ‘whole’ human beings, becoming our full authentic selves. In many ways impositions from western gender binaries has influenced our ability to be our full selves as Indigenous peoples. I am passionate about learning and putting forward our Indigenous worldviews and teachings as a pathway for healing gender relationships.”

Elizabeth (Sabet) Biscaye

Elizabeth Biscaye, better known as Sabet is a Chipewyan Dene who was born and raised in Rocher River and Fort Resolution in northern Canada. Her educational background includes teacher’s college in Fort Smith and Recreation Administration at Red Deer College. She also completed a number of university credit courses in Linguistics from the University of Calgary and the University of New Mexico.

Sabet has a varied background but is well known for her work with Indigenous languages. She worked for a number of years with the Government of the Northwest Territories in language development and served on a number of Boards and Committees dealing with Indigenous languages both at the territorial level and the national level. She also worked with the Yamozha Kue Society (formerly Dene Cultural Institute) on a number of projects including the development of an Interpreter/Translator training program.

Sabet also worked in the private sector, first as the Executive Director of the Native Communications Society where she managed their Indigenous language radio and television programming and then with De Beer’s Canada. In her role as Superintendent of Community Relations with De Beers Canada, she was responsible for maintaining relationships between De Beers Canada and the Indigenous communities including the implementation of Impact Benefit Agreements and assisting with community engagement and consultation activities.

Sabet returned to the Government of the NWT in March of 2015 to the role of Senior Advisor, Aboriginal Relations in the then Department of Aboriginal Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations. She also acted as the Intergovernmental Council Coordinator in that role and was instrumental in setting up the administrative supports to the Council and the Secretariat.

Sabet is currently the Special Advisor to the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women. In that role, she provides support and advice to the Minister on a wide range of women’s equality issues as well as government policies, legislation, programs and other activities of interest to women. In that role, she is required to work closely with the Status of Women Council of the NWT and the Native Women’s Association of the NWT. In this position, Sabet has a dual reporting relationship. She reports directly to the Minister Responsible for the Status of Women and is also accountable to the Secretary to Cabinet.

Jessica Black (Gwich'in)

Courtney Carothers

Bio: Courtney Carothers is a Professor of Fisheries in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in environmental anthropology from the University of Washington and an A.B. in Biology and Society from Cornell University. Her research explores how fishery systems are being remade by enclosure and privatization processes. She also partners with Indigenous communities to understand social and cultural dimensions of knowledge systems, climate change, traditional hunting and fishing livelihoods, and decolonizing research. Her work focuses on human-environment relationships, cultural values, equity, and well-being.

Yolande Chapman

Yolande Chapman is a Dene woman who grew up in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Yolande began her public service career with Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and worked 17 years in administrative and policy roles. In 2014 she started working for the Government of the Northwest Territories. Over the past seven years, she has worked within the Department of Ex-ecutive and Indigenous Affairs, supporting Priorities and Planning, Intergovernmental Relations, and the Women’s Advisory Office.

Yolande assumed her current role as Project Manager in the Women’s Advisory Office, respon-sible for the federally funded program delivery of the Women in Leadership initiative. In this capacity, she manages the Campaign School for Women, which strives to increase women's representation in leadership roles at all levels of government.

Sara Fusco

PhD student in environmental law and indigenous rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lapland. Her research focuses on the concept of Environmental Justice in the Arctic under indigenous right and through national constitutional comparison. She currently lectures in Comparative Law at the University of Akureyri, where she graduated in Polar Law in 2019. She collaborates as Research Assistant at Stefansson Arctic Institute and Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network. She holds an MA in Law from the University of Florence (2017) and enriched her academic career at University of in Oslo (in Gender Equality, 2015), University of Helsinki (in Human Rights law, 2015-2016) and the University of Greenland (Natural Resources Management, 2018) and at University of Copenhagen (in Political Science, 2016). She collaborates with the Icelandic academic E-Journal Nordicum- Mediterraneum as Special Editor for legal and arctic studies. She is also Vice-President of an Italian non-profit association "Ferma Le Tue Mani", which deals with assistance and information for victims of sexual violence in Italy.

Firouz Gaini

Firouz Gaini is professor of anthropology and research leader at the Department of History and Social Sciences, University of the Faroe Islands. His research has focused on young people’s everyday lives, identities, and future perspectives in Arctic, Nordic and small island settings. He has done research on gender (men and masculinities) and family relations (fatherhood) in the Faroe Islands and other North Atlantic communities. Firouz has done fieldwork in the Faroes, Greenland, France and Japan. He is co-editor of the volume “Gender and Island Communities” (Routledge 2020).

Tanja Joona

Tanja Joona (Dr.Soc.Sci.) Title of Docent in Public International law, is working as a Senior researcher at the Arctic Centre of the University of Lapland (2000 - ) At the moment she is the Finnish Institutional leader of the H2020 project JustNorth (2020-2023): Toward Just, Ethical and Sustainable Arctic Economies, Environments and Societies. The Consortium consists of 15 partners all over the world and has a budget of 6 million euros.

Joona’s main research interests focus on mainly to the Arctic region, with comparative legal and political aspects of indigenous Sámi society and especially issues dealing with traditional livelihoods, international human rights law and identity questions in the context of justice and equality. Her PhD (2012) dealt with the implementation of ILO Convention No. 169 concerning the rights of indigenous peoples and land use questions in the Nordic countries. She has been working with several national and international projects eg. on Sámi children and youth in urban cities funded by the Norwegian Research Council (NUORGÁV). At the moment, besides the H2020 she is working as a researcher in a project dealing with Arctic industrial cities and youth wellbeing (WOLLIE) funded by the Finnish Academy. Tanja Joona has published numerous amount of scientific peer reviewed articles and has participated international conferences around the world. She has also several positions of trust at the University of Lapland as well as in the society.

Anna Karlsdóttir

Anna Karlsdóttir has a PhD in social Sciences from Roskilde University, Denmark. She has been lecturer and associate professor at human geography and tourism studies at University of Iceland since 2002 (on leave of absence until 2023). As Senior Research fellow at Nordregio since 2015 she has functioned as coordinator of the Nordic Arctic Working Group (2013-2016) and respon-sible administrator of the Arctic Cooperation Programme since 2016, secretariat leader for the Nordic Thematic Group on sustainable rural development and coordinator for the Nordic Inte-gration Programme for refugees and immigrants. She has conducted studies on various issues regarding shifts in primary industries occupations (fisheries, aquaculture and agriculture) in rural communities in North Atlantic region and circumpolar Arctic, employment diversification and tourism related occupations and the link to regional development, seaborn tourism, youth and gender. She has been involved in North Atlantic, Nordic, European, US and Canadian networks research since 1996.

Mara Kimmel

Mara Kimmel has a long career in Alaskan public policy focused on rights and justice in northern communities. She has been on faculty at the Seattle University School of Law, the University of Alaska Anchorage and Alaska Pacific University and served as a Senior Re-search Fellow at the Anchorage Museum. In addition to teaching and research, Mara has worked as an immigration attorney and as an advocate for tribal subsistence rights. Mara has been involved with several city initiatives focused on equity, resilience and combatting human trafficking, and lead the development of Welcoming and Resilience initiatives at the Municipality of Anchorage. She also works on expanding access to justice through her work with the Alaska Court System. Mara chairs the national board of directors for Wel-coming America, serves on the regional advisory board for the Anti-Defamation League, and is board president and co-founder of the Alaska Institute for Justice. Mara was a mem-ber of the State of Alaska’s Climate Action Leadership Team and chaired the Advisory Committee for the 2019 Municipality of Anchorage’s Climate Action Planning process. Mara has a PhD from Central European University, a JD from the University of Minnesota School of Law, a Masters’ degree from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and a Bache-lors’ degree from the University of California Berkeley.

Bridget Larocque

Bridget Larocque is an Indigenous resident of the Northwest Territories, has extensive knowledge of the Northwest Territories and the broader circumpolar world, brings a distinct worldview from that region, and also shares a comprehensive knowledge of research methods and Indigenous and gender issues. She serves as a policy advisor and researcher with the Arctic Athabaskan Council (ACC) and was executive director of Gwich’in Council International (GCI) from 2007- 12, so she has tremendous expertise on the Arctic Council and Arctic governance issues. Her other recent work includes managing self-government negotiations for the Gwich’in Tribal Council, serving as land claim implementation coordinator and project analyst with Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada and as assistant negotiator with Executive and Indigenous Affairs in the Government of the Northwest Territories, and as Executive Director of the Fort Norman Community in the Northwest Territories.

Kirsti Lempiäinen

Kirsti Lempiäinen is Professor of Sociology of Adult Education in the University of Lapland. Her lat-est research interest include gender and workspaces, gender in academia and feminist sociology of knowledge.

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Samantha Michaels

Samantha Michaels is a Senior Research and Policy Advisor at Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Can-ada. She leads research on issues affecting Inuit women and children to advance policy and program development. Her principal files include housing, violence against women and the administration of justice. She also advises on social, economic and health trends. Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, incorporated in 1984, is the national representative organization of Inuit women in Canada and is governed by a 14-member Board of Directors from across Cana-da. It fosters greater awareness of the needs of Inuit women, advocates for equality and social improvements, and encourages their participation in the community, regional and national life of Canada. Samantha holds a Master’s Degree in Justice Studies from the University of Regina and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Law and Society from York University.

Suzanne Mills

Suzanne Mills is Associate Professor in the School of Labour Studies and the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at McMaster University where she has been recognized as a University Schol-ar. Mills’ research examines gender, sexuality and work as well as how colonial relations shape work and Indigenous employment in construction, mining and forestry. Mills has collaborated with Indigenous communities to identify factors that aid or hinder employment on resource de-velopment projects. Suzanne has also partnered with trade unions and worker centres to exam-ine the experiences of LGBTQ+ workers. Mills has written multiple community reports and pub-lished articles in national and international journals including Environment and Planning A, Geoforum, and Arctic.

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Søren Stach Nielsen

Søren Stach Nielsen is Acting Project Director for Oceans North in Greenland. He has extensive ex-perience working directly with community members across Greenland and gathering local knowledge about the natural environment. In addition, he has run men's groups for a number of years in Nuuk. He has served Greenland at a variety of departments and levels of government, in-cluding as the former deputy minister of the environment.

Ivalo Olsvig

Ivalo Olsvig is employed as a curator at The House of Knud Rasmussen in Denmark on the EU project 'Identity on the Line', supported by the EU-program 'Creative Europe'. Ivalo Olsvig will help to uncover issues of identity and migration among Greenlanders living in Denmark and the experiences and encounters that two cultures can cause. Ivalo Olsvig has her own small company, next to her position as curator, in the company: 'Ivalo Olsvig - Greenlandic and Arctic consultant and public speaker'. Ivalo Olsvig was previously employed at The Natural History Museum of Denmark and in several departments at The National Museum of Denmark - where she has worked with the museums Arctic projects. In addition, Ivalo Olsvig is a volunteer in the support committee in Denmark for The Greenland Christmas Seal.

Maria Osipova

Maria Osipova is Sakha researcher who is currently finishing her PhD in Social Sciences at the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk, Russia. She is interested in Arctic matters and willing to acquire knowledge of the Arctic regions, it’s environment, people, and culture. Her PhD-dissertation is focused on understanding the professional and social roles of Yakutian truck-drivers, how the northern landscape affects truck-drivers’ work and lifestyle.

Aleksandra Poturaeva

Aleksandra Poturaeva is a graduate of the department of socio-economic geography of foreign countries, faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University (bachelor – in 2015, master – in 2017). She has been a graduate student at the same affiliation since 2018 and is currently working on a PhD thesis on the topic “Gender geography of the Arctic in the context of regional demographic, economic, cultural and political problems.” She is also an expert at the nonprofit organization, Institute of Regional Consulting in Moscow (since October 2017 as a permanent employee, at 2016-2017 as a contractor).

Olga Povoroznyuk

Olga Povoroznyuk is a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna. She received her highest academic degree of Kandidat Nauk (Ph.D. equivalent) in Ethnology from the Institute for Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Her research has been focusing on ethnicity, identity, gender and indigeneity; infrastructure and development; cultural change and postsocialist transformations in Russia and in the Circumpolar North. Povoroznyuk published a book on socio-economic and cultural transformations in indigenous Evenk communities in East Siberia, as well as a number of peer-reviewed journal articles.

Between 2015-2020 she worked on a joint research project on entanglements of human communi-ties with the Baikal-Amur Mainline, East Siberia. In 2020, she will take the position of a scientific coordinator and a senior researcher in a research project supported by the European Research Council, about transport infrastructures and sustainable communities in the Artic.

Olga Povoroznyuk is a member of the working group on infrastructure of the International Arctic Science Committee, the Austrian Polar Research Institute, the Vienna Working Group on the Arc-tic and Subarctic; the Association of Anthropologists and Ethnologists of Russia, and other aca-demic organizations and networks. She is visible at international conferences and actively involved in peer-review activities for international anthropology and social journals, and teaches social an-thropology at the University of Vienna.

Magalie Quintal Marineau

Magalie Quintal-Marineau, Ph.D. in Human Geography, is an assistant professor at Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Montréal, Canada. Quintal-Marineau studies social and economic landscapes across the Inuit Nunangat with a focus on gender. Through her research and collaboration with Inuit communities and organizations, she aims to better understand the impacts of current economic devel-opment on Inuit women and their families. With Pauktuutit, Inuit Women of Canada, she studies the geography of care and mobility dynamics for Inuit women in Canada.

Liliia I. Vinokurova

PhD in Historical Sciences, Lead Researcher at the Department of History and Arctic studies of The Institute for Humanities research and Indigenous studies of the North, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yakutsk, Russia. Scientific interests are social history of indigenous peoples of the North and the Arctic, issues of rural everyday life and gender, also historical ecology and climate changes in Yakutia.

L. Vinokurova is the author of more than 200 scientific works, incl. 3 monographs (ORCID 0000-0002-5779-6893; Research ID 7026-2016). Member of the Russian Geographical Society and IASSA (International Arctic Social Sciences Association). Liliia Vinokurova has long-term experience of working with non-governmental organizations of women, with local communities of aborigines of Yakutia. She is known as an activist in promoting gender equality and preserving linguistic diversity in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

Nadezhda Zamyatina

PhD in geography (2001), leading researcher of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow state University, Deputy General Director of ANO "Institute for regional consulting" (since 2017). Specialist in human geography, Arctic urbanization, frontier regions. Deputy director of project groups developing strategies for socio-economic development of a number of Russian cities and regions. Author of over 188 scientific articles, a series of online journalistic materials on the Arctic, co-author of 14 books.

Laura Zanotti

Laura Zanotti is a Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University. She has affiliations with the Center for the Environment, Latin American and Latino Studies, Critical Data Studies Collective, and Native American and Indigenous Studies Program. Zanotti is an interdisciplinary social scientist whose research program prioritizes creative, collaborative and team-based work which partners with communities to examine how local livelihoods and well-being can be sustained. Using a feminist political ecology framework and intersectional analyses, Zanotti maps out spatial inequalities and interlocking injustices and spotlights local voices and knowledge systems. In addition to environmental anthropology, she embraces decolonizing and praxis-oriented approaches to research inquiry alongside insights from cultural geography and Indigenous studies. To this end, her work with women, families and communities in the Arctic seeks to question dominant research epistemologies and address the historical legacies of community-researcher interactions.

Bergljót Þrastardóttir

Bergljót Þrastardóttir is an Assistant Professor at the University of Akureyri and worked previously as the head of the Educational Division at the Directorate of Equality in iceland, an institution under the Prime Ministers’ Office (2008-2020). Her main teaching has been on gender studies, gender, human rights, inclusion and democracy in education and gender based violence. Her research field is related to gender and empowerment, gender and education, inclusion and power and resistance in the classroom and critical pedagogy.

ERIKA ANNE HAYFIELD

Erika Anne Hayfield is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Social Science, University of the Faroe Islands. She is the Programme Director for the master’s programme in History and Social Science. Erika’s PhD is a study of children’s cultures of consumption in which she applied an ethnographic approach, of which gendered consumption was one theme of the PhD. Her work has involved childhood and participation as well as migration and mobilities. She has written on gender and the labour market and gendered work mobilities, young people’s out-migration and immigrant belonging in the small community of the Faroe Islands. Presently, Erika’s work is focused on gender equality and making a living in isolated labour markets, social relations in small communities, COVID-19 coping strategies, as well as the ethical challenges of conducting qualitative research in small places, which are characterised by intimacy and interconnectedness. Erika teaches gender and welfare, ethics, methodology, migration, and mobilities.

Erika has been a member of the network Gender Equality in the Arctic since 2015. She was involved in the planning of the conference Gender Equality in the Arctic in Akureyri 2015, where she also presented. Furthermore, she was a co-organiser of the sessions on gender equality at the Arctic Circle in the Faroe Islands 2018.