I’m a master in natural resources management candidate from the University of Manitoba. My interest is to contribute to the holistic understanding of the relationships between people and nature, linking western and non-Western epistemologies. My academic training has been a journey of rethinking my bearings to understand nature. As undergrad I was trained in biology. In my honours’ research I studied bird movements between forest fragments in a Sub-Andean landscape. Though this experience was centred in understanding the effects of forest fragmentation in forest birds, it gave me a gist of people’s role in biodiversity conservation in the proximity of my hometown. After university, I worked with the United Nations Development Program, the Colombian Parks System, and a local environmental agency in a project devoted to territorial ordering and biodiversity conservation of the Macizo Colombiano, southern Colombia. I worked with local initiatives of biodiversity conservation and their articulation with government policies. Since 2006 I’ve been working under Prof. Fikret Berkes (University of Manitoba) and Aaron Fisk (University of Windsor) supervision. Part of the International Polar Year project: “Determining the Diet of the Greenland Shark in a Changing Arctic”, my thesis is about the Inuit knowledge on the Greenland shark. Dealing with an unusual topic, as it is an animal that is not only not used but also considered nuisance, has open a very special venue to understand the process in which information from the environment is gathered and structured to make sense for Pangnirtung Inuit hunters.