Tackling polarization and strengthening democracy by building bridges between communities and public policy leadership through nonpartisan dialogue.

Victoria Kuketz has been a Director of Corporate Engagement at Catalyst, where she serves as a corporate advisor to large corporations on responsible innovation, the future of work, and building inclusive models for civic and corporate engagement in Canada, the United States, and Europe. Victoria also brings her experience as an established policy and grassroots community leader to her role as Digital Democracy Fellow with the Public Policy Forum, where she leads nationwide initiatives on polarization and civic participation. In this work, she took a systemic approach and engaged 1,600 youth voices across 321 Canadian cities to understand polarization's impact, in addition to eight researchers and writers, five community organizations, two think tanks, and one investigative journalist, all studying, documenting, and reporting on the issue of Canadian polarization. Victoria is now shifting her focus from diagnosing societal divides to building trust and positive community connections and aims to focus on this approach as a Scholar, ultimately creating frameworks for trust-building across the political spectrum, drawing on global perspectives and academic rigor to design scalable solutions for stronger democracies.

Victoria holds a Masters Degree from the University of Toronto in English Literature, in addition to an Honours Bachelors of Arts with Distinction in English Literature from UofT as well. She was also selected to be in the inaugural cohort of Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute’s global Summer School in Responsible AI and Human Rights.

Victoria hosts Catalyst’s Breaking with Tradition podcast, and the Democracy Dialogues on behalf of the Democratic Engagement Exchange at Toronto Metropolitan University, a national virtual series focused on building an inclusive democracy.