Victoria Serda lives in Port Elgin, Ontario, where she lives with her husband, Jamie, and her daughter, Corrina. Victoria earned a Bachelor of Independent Studies from the University of Waterloo, where she specialized in Democratic Education. She is currently works as a Sustainability Connector for the Grey Bruce Sustainability Network.

Victoria was an elected Municipal Councillor on the Saugeen Shores council from 2006-2010 and founder and President of the Saugeen Sustainability Volunteer and Resource Centre non-profit. She has been an active environmental advocate for more than two decades, including five years as an administrator of a 300 acre organic farm in Umpqua, Oregon. She was the Co-Chair of the Green Party of Canada's Biennial General Meeting in August, 2010, and was the Deputy Leader of the Green Party of Ontario from 2006 through 2007. She was the Chair of its Campaign Committee for the Provincial Election in 2007, as well as being the Green Party candidate for Huron-Bruce federally in 2006 and provincially in 2007.

In early 2007, Victoria was one of 21 Canadians trained by Al Gore to give his Inconvenient Truth climate change presentation. In the first two years, she gave over 120 presentations to more than 21,000 people across the province, earning her the designation of Lead Mentor for The Climate Project Canada. Together, she and Corrina have completed 160 presentations to 36,000 people, and both attended Al Gore's Solutions training based on his book "Our Choice" in Nashville from June 26-28, 2010. She also conducted training for Canadian presenters in Al Gore's new slideshow based on the 24 Hours of Reality deck from 2011.  Victoria was also a blogger for The Hour/Cisco/GreenNexxus One Million Acts of Green.

Victoria also stepped forward to run for Mayor of Saugeen Shores in 2010, and received 21% of the popular vote.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT:

• Presenter of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, Our Choice Climate Change Solutions and Climate Reality slideshows
  
• Chair and Board member of the Saugeen Shores Community Fund
• Community Foundation Grey Bruce Board member
• Founding Board member of sauGREEN, a local environmental charity
• Chair of Trees for Saugeen, a local/regional tree planting sub-committee of sauGREEN
  
• President and Founding Board member of the Saugeen Sustainability Volunteer and Resource Centre
• Committee member of the Saugeen Shores Accessibility Advisory Committee
  
• Former observer on the Grey Bruce Regional Economic Development Partnership Committee
• Former Chair of the Saugeen Shores ad hoc Committee on the Environment
• Former member of the Town's Rail Trail, Waterfront Chamber of Commerce, Accessibility, and Integrated Playground Fundraising committees
• Grey Bruce Community Foundation Environmental Forum Steering Committee member for the 2009 Go Green at Saugeen conference
• Founding Board member and Secretary  of the Grey Bruce Sustainability Network
• Board member of the Georgian Triangle Earth Day Celebrations charity
  
• Founding member of the Moving Saugeen Shores mobility transportation not-for-organization
• Former member of the Southport Chapter of the Canadian Federation of University Women
• Former member of the Creating Community Network, which had the objective of promoting dialogue about the collective vision for our town by holding public forums
• Former board member of the Lake Huron Learning Collaborative, working on bringing life long learning classes, speakers and courses to the Bruce County Museum and Cultural Centre & Huron-Bruce
• Founder of Green Horizons Environmental Group, whose mission was to educate the public about environmental responsibility
• Former coordinator of the Grey-Bruce Homeschooling Network
• Former Membership secretary for the Saugeen Speakers Toastmasters' Club
• Co-Chair of the Green Party of Canada's Biennial General Meeting in August, 2010
  
• Past Policy Coordinator and convention organizer for the Green Party of Ontario
  
• Homeschooled her daughter Corrina until 2009
• Founder of Indian River Independent School, which was open in 2001-2
  
• Key organizer of Al Gore's Climate Project Canada training of 250 new presenters in Montreal in April, 2008

SPEAKING EXPERIENCE: SELECTIONS

• Industrial Accident Prevention Association Conference & Trade Show, Metro Toronto Convention Centre
  
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, Hamilton Yacht Club
  
• Bluewater Association of Lifelong Learning, Bayshore Community Centre, Owen Sound
  
• Green Reel Environmental Film Festival, Vaughan
• Huntsville Public School
  
• University of Waterloo
• Ontario Horticultural Association Conference, Owen Sound
  
• Kitchener Public Library
• Erin Step It Up!
• Green Energy Home Show at Kortright, Vaughan
• Region of Peel Staff Day, Brampton
• Ethiopian Millenium Celebration, Toronto

Victoria is available to speak on a range of topics from sustainability, energy, climate adaptation, green careers, how to run community projects, how to govern non-profits, social networking tools, to a Canadianized version of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth, Our Choice Climate Crisis Solutions, Business Solutions and Climate Reality presentations.

To reach Victoria with your questions, comments, or to request a presentation:

Victoria Serda
PO Box 718
Port Elgin ON
N0H 2C0
519.389.5779 (home)
vserda@victoriaserda.ca
www.victoriaserda.ca