Gita completed her undergraduate degree at York University, her MSc at Queen’s University and her PhD at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research sought to characterize the local importance of sea ice processes, use, and change based on Inuit expertise, and in so doing to provide points of intersection with scientific sea ice monitoring and investigations. Since 2003 she has been working with the Nunavut communities of Pangnirtung, Cape Dorset, and Igloolik since 2003, as part of ongoing, long-term projects in each to continue exploring human-environment interactions and understandings at local and regional scales.