GINU Welcomes Summer Students

This year, the Gespe’gewa’gi Institute of Natural Understanding (GINU) welcomed two summer students. Ayden Barnaby and Lashawnee Myo have been hired to work at GINU for a seven-week period. We are proud to do our part building capacity with the youth in our membership communities. They will be working with our research team.

Ayden Barnaby is a 15-year-old student from Listuguj. He is the son of Jennifer Isaac and Dustin Barnaby. “I got a job so that I could learn new things about our waters, and animals around our waters,” said Ayden. Ayden’s hobbies include fishing, playing musical instruments, and archery. He competed at the North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) the week of July 15 to the 23rd in Millbrook, Nova Scotia.

Lashawnee is a recent graduate from Sugarloaf Senior High school (SSHS). She is a Mi’gmaq and Plains Cree from Listuguj. Lashawnee is planning on attending Carleton University and majoring in biology. She reached out to GINU expressing interest in working with the organization, looking to gain experience in the sciences. “I feel working at GINU would give me good experience.” Lashawnee will have a busy summer working on the field and she can also be found on the powwow trail jingle dancing.