Vivian Motzfeldt

Vivian Motzfeldt is a Greenlandic politician who was the speaker of the Inatsisartut, the Parliament of Greenland, and the deputy chairwoman of Siumut. In the fifth cabinet of Kim Kielsen, Motzfeldt was the minister of education, culture, church and foreign affairs.

Early life and education
Motzfedlt was born on 10 June 1972. At seven years old, she moved to a boarding school in Qaqortoq. Each Christmas, she and her siblings went back to their hometown of Upernaviarsuk, an experimental site for agriculture in southern Greenland. She spent Christmas at her childhood home until she was 17, when she went to the United States on an exchange study. She returned to Greenland to study to be a teacher in Nuuk. From 1998 to 2000, she attended the University of Greenland where she studied cultural and social history of Greenland. She then had a teaching career, first in Nuuk until 2007, and then in Qaqortoq from 2010 to 2014.