Monica Inunak Ell-Kanayuk is a Canadian politician and broadcaster who served in the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut from 2011 until 2017 and president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada from 2018 until 2022.
Prior to her election as an MLA, she was a director of programming at the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation, president of the Baffin Chamber of Commerce, and owner-and-operator of sewing company Arctic Creations.
[1] Ell-Kanayuk subsequently ran as a candidate and used door-to-door campaigning during her run, recalling that she "tried to get into every house but of course there’s dogs and stuff".
[5][7] In the 2017 Nunavut general election, she lost her district to provincial finance officer Adam Lightstone.
[8] In 2018, she was elected president of Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada, beating out Northwest Territories MLA Herbert Nakimayak for the position.