Victoria Kuketz

Victoria Kuketz is a 2025 Obama Foundation Scholar and was selected to join a global cohort of 11 interdisciplinary leaders at Columbia University’s World Projects. She is focused on addressing polarization, strengthening democracy and community resilience. This stems from her leadership on the Far and Widening polarization project at PPF, where she built a national diagnostic on how polarization was manifesting in Canada.

Previously, Victoria served as director of corporate engagement at Catalyst Canada, the Canadian arm of a global non-profit working to build workplaces that work for women. She has built her career as a corporate advisor to C-suite leaders, while simultaneously serving Canadians at the grassroots level to build inclusive leadership, democratic engagement and responsive public education.

Victoria has established successful public-private partnerships at MaRS Discovery District, Elections Ontario, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and the Public Policy Forum. She is the host of Catalyst’s podcast Breaking with Tradition. She also hosts Democracy Dialogues, a series of conversations on building a vibrant and inclusive democracy produced by Toronto Metropolitan University’s Democratic Engagement Exchange.

She acts as an advisor to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority’s Canadian Internet Governance Forum, The Dais’ Democracy XChange, the Democratic Engagement Exchange’s Canadian Vote Summit and People for Education’s national advisory, and sits on the MLSE Foundation’s Community Action Grants selection circle committee. She was a 2022 CivicAction DiverseCity Fellow.

Victoria holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English literature from the University of Toronto. In 2023, she was one of a select cohort to participate in the inaugural Mila Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute global summer school in responsible AI and human rights.

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