Jessica Penney

Dr. Jessica Penney (Nunatsiavut Inuk) is an expert in Inuit health and wellbeing, food sovereignty, and environmental issues. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Toronto Metropolitan University and Associate at the Yellowhead Institute.

Professor Penney completed her doctoral research at the University of Glasgow and formerly held a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. She is also passionate about collaborative Inuit research methodologies and ethics and serves on Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre’s Ethics Katimajiit and the National Inuit Ethics Review Committee.