Jessica Winters

Executive Director

Arctic Inspiration Prize

Jessica Winters is the acting Executive Director of the Arctic Inspiration Prize. Originally from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut, Jessica brings a perspective shaped by her lived experience as a northerner, her background in science, and a career spanning arts, culture, community development, and program leadership.

Jessica is also an award-winning artist and arts advocate. Her work across the arts and community sectors has focused on creating opportunities, amplifying northern voices, and exploring contemporary northern experiences. Through her work with the Arctic Inspiration Prize, she supports locally driven ideas and the people behind them, finding ways that investment, collaboration, culture, and capacity can help northern communities shape their own futures.