‘Nothing about us without us’: Inuit leader Sara Olsvig on ocean politics

‘Nothing about us without us’: Inuit leader Sara Olsvig on ocean politics

Sara Olsvig is a veteran advocate for Indigenous rights at international meetings, maneuvering with some success even at institutions not known to be particularly adaptive. “Through the many decades of advocacy and Indigenous diplomacy that we’ve been doing, we have seen how much we can impact decision-making in the U.N.,” she says. Olsvig chairs the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), which represents some 180,000 Inuit people across Alaska (in th…