Watt-Cloutier also contributed significantly to the youth awareness video Capturing Spirit: The Inuit Journey. This work led to the 1992 report on the educational system in Nunavik, Silaturnimut - The Pathway to Wisdom.

From 1991 to 1995, she worked as a counsellor in the review process of the education system of Northern Quebec. In the mid-1970s, she worked for the Ungava Hospital as an Inuktitut translator and strove to improve education and health conditions. Her brother is Charlie Watt, who sat in the Senate of Canada for 34 years. She studied counselling and education at McGill University in Montreal. For the first ten years of her life, Sheila was raised traditionally, travelling on the land by dog sled, before she was sent away for school in Nova Scotia and Churchill, Manitoba in the Canadian Indian residential school system. Her mother was known as a skillful healer and interpreter throughout Nunavik, and her father was an officer for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Sheila Watt-Cloutier was born in Kuujjuaq, Nunavik, Northern Quebec, Canada. She is also a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Watt-Cloutier sits as an adviser to Canada's Ecofiscal Commission. She has received numerous awards and honours for her work, and has been featured in a number of documentaries and profiled by journalists from all media. Watt-Cloutier has worked on a range of social and environmental issues affecting Inuit, most recently, persistent organic pollutants and global warming. She has been a political representative for Inuit at the regional, national and international levels, most recently as International Chair for the Inuit Circumpolar Council (formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference).

Sheila Watt-Cloutier OC (born 2 December 1953) is a Canadian Inuk activist.

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