Sampada Kukade, Vice President, Corporate Communications & Stakeholder Engagement

Sampada Kukade is the VP of Corporate Communications and Stakeholder Engagement at Skills for Change. She has been at Skills for Change since 2015.

Sampada has over 20 years of non-profit sector experience in marketing, communications, leadership development and strategic partnerships. She holds a Bachelors in Arts at the University of Western Ontario and a post-graduate certificate in Marketing and Events Planning from George Brown College.

Prior to working at Skills for Change, Sampada led communications, province-wide events and a leadership program at the Ontario Medical Association. Being passionate about politics, Sampada also previously ran as a political candidate at the provincial level.

She is extremely passionate about driving social justice issues and advancing the social inequities of underserved communities. She works with employers on developing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion programs through workforce development.

Sampada currently serves as a Toronto Region Board Director for OCASI and is a Board Member for FORA Network for Change.

In her spare time, Sampada teaches yoga as a certified yoga instructor, with a specific focus on helping manage chronic disease. She is also a mother of two young boys.