Karla Jessen Williamson (born 1954 in Appamiut, Maniitsoq, Greenland, Kingdom of Denmark)[1] is an assistant professor of educational foundations at the University of Saskatchewan.
She graduated from high school in Denmark and received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Education[4] from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada in 1987.
Her Ph.D., from the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen in Scotland, focussed on gender relations in post-colonial Greenland Inuit communities.
[10] She taught for 16 years in the Indian and Northern Education program at the University of Saskatchewan before moving to the AINA on 15 September 2000.
[13] She is a notable presenter on masking and promotes it for Inuit understanding of gender equality in relationship to ancestors, animals, and the environment.