Jocelyn Joe-Strack

She is a microbiologist, and hydrologist at Yukon University,^[5] where she is research chair in Indigenous Knowledge.^[2]

In early 2019 Joe-Strack was invited by a Canadian diplomat on a four-week speaking tour of embassies in Berlin, Madrid, Paris, and Stockholm, where she discussed indigenous approaches to climate change.^[6][7]

She was selected for a TikTok accelerator program in late 2021.^[8][9][10]

In 2022 Joe-Strack attended COP27, where she spoke on several panels.^[11] In November 2022 she was also elected to the Yukon First Nations School Board.^[12]

Joe-Strack is a member of the Wolf Clan of Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.^[2] She speaks Southern Tutchone.^[3]

Her father, Willie Joe (d. 1997), was a member of the Yukon Native Brotherhood's executive council, which later became part of the Council of Yukon First Nations. In this role, he helped to negotiate the Umbrella Final Agreement.^[4] Joe-Strack's mother died in 2010.^[4]

Joe-Strack has one daughter.^[4]