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Heidi Aklaseaq Senungetuk is an Inupiaq scholar and musician. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a doctorate in ethnomusicology, with a focus on Inupiaq music and dance. Her research interest is in Indigenous peoples practicing and performing music and dance in urban areas throughout the Arctic.

Heidi also received degrees in violin performance from the University of Michigan and the Oberlin Conservatory, and has performed with many ensembles, including the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the Tulsa Philharmonic. She also performed at the National Museum of the American Indian in their Classical Native Series, and was first violinist with the all-Native American ensemble, The Coast Orchestra, when they performed live music for Edward Curtis’ 1914 silent film In the Land of the Headhunters at the National Gallery of Art and the American Museum of Natural History.

Heidi has been an active performing member of the Kingikmiut Dancers and Singers of Anchorage, a traditional Inupiaq dance group with ancestral ties to Wales, Alaska, that shares their performing arts with the community.