Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq

Dr. Cana Uluak Itchuaqiyaq is an Iñupiaq scholar and a Tribal citizen of the Noorvik Native Community in Northwest Alaska. She is an assistant professor of technical and scientific communication and the founding director of the Center for Sustainable Engagement in the Arctic (CSEA) at Virginia Tech. Her work focuses on Arctic research, data governance, and research methodologies that support community-led initiatives and scientific innovation. She has extensive experience developing research methods, partnerships, and programs that facilitate collaboration between Arctic communities and research institutions. She is the academic lead for Arctic community-led, transdisciplinary initiatives that focus on language documentation, NLP, data literacy, digital archiving, and increasing local research capacities. She serves as a co-lead for the IARPC Participatory Research and Indigenous Leadership in Research (PILR) collaborative team and as co-lead for the IASC ICARP IV RPT7 on Services, Infrastructure, Logistics, and Technology. Dr. Itchuaqiyaq has received numerous honors, including the 2023 & 2025 CCCC Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical or Scientific Communication.