Vanessa Raponi

Vanessa Raponi is a professional engineer & business leader with a decade of experience in global manufacturing operations. Vanessa is the Founder of the award-winning non-profit EngiQueers Canada, is fighting to address food insecurity via frontline food bank work, and is creating a documentary highlighting her father’s 10-year journey experiencing homelessness in Toronto. With a proven track record of complex problem solving, empathetic leadership and implementing results via sound change management principles, she is channeling her energy into improving her home of Toronto by representing Parkdale–High Park, a community that she lives in and loves.