Vice-President, Programs
Coralie D’Souza
Coralie D’Souza is the Vice-President, Programs of the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation, and leads the strategic direction and growth of the foundation’s programming portfolio. She believes that Canada's future economic and social success hinges on the literacy and well-being of its children.
An award-winning communications strategist, Coralie's work has spanned all three levels of government and included roles as Senior Communications Advisor to the Minister of Children & Youth Services, the Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and International Trade, and the Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues in Ontario.
Committed to public service and community building, she has spent the past 20 years working and volunteering on a range of community initiatives, with a focus on equity and literacy.
Before joining CCLF, Coralie pursued her passion for making research accessible to a broader audience as an executive at the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship at Toronto Metropolitan University.
Coralie graduated from the University of Toronto, where she served on the University’s Governing Council. She is an Advisor on the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) Board and seeks to support creators of comic works in their broad and diverse voices, and to promote the medium of comics as a legitimate medium of literary and artistic worth. She is also former Operational Vice-President for the Ontario Liberal Party, an Advisory Member of the Fora: Network for Change (formerly known as G(irls)20 Summit) Board, and Co-Chair of the Toronto Public Library Foundation's New Collection.