Join us on Thursday, May 6 for an illuminating discussion with Paulina Grainger, the Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA) Manager of Arts and Community Engagement, who will share her life story, career path, and key decisions leading to career success. She will be also giving tips to BIPOC women who want to take on leadership roles. 

Paulina was born in Tanzania, East Africa. She immigrated to Canada 18 years ago, after working as a TV & Radio Producer for International Advertising Agencies in Kenya, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Sri Lanka. She is a community organizer & activist, an arts administrator, an actor, a storyteller and producer. From 2003-2011 she worked as the General Manager of PUENTE Theatre, a Victoria-based multicultural theatre company. She has worked at the ICA since 2012. 

Her innovative work using art-based practices to explore critical social issues around equity, justice, diversity & inclusion brought provincial recognition when she was bestowed with the BC Multiculturalism Award in 2016. Paulina’s lived experience as a Black, immigrant woman of colour, deep connection to community, and broad knowledge of the many systemic barriers faced by refugees and newcomers to Canada continuously informs her work. The latest project she’s working on is the creation of an ICA Equity Training Program “Tools for Equity”.

The event link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85748887885

Closed captioning by a closed captioner is available for this event.

For media enquiries, please contact domi@sniwwoc.ca at least 48 hours prior to the event.

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We acknowledge that this event is hosted from the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people, currently and specifically the Esquimalt and Songhees Nations.