Victoria Scott

Victoria C. Scott (also known as Rivers, her spirit name) is a community accompanier and architect of inclusive spaces. She works with individuals from different walks of life to build more socially just and equitable systems and settings.  She tends to ask: “what can be possible IF….” and “how can we think things together….not apart”?  Collective wellness — or the well-being of all people, kinship, and place — rests at the heart of her personal and professional commitments and contributions.

Victoria’s gifts draw on liberatory and relational approaches as well as the wisdom of the natural world.  She exudes humility and a collective spirit – qualities shaped by her journey as a Taiwanese-American daughter of immigrants. With formal training in community psychology, clinical psychology, and business administration, Victoria lends expertise in wellness practices; group processes; systems-level capacity building; program implementation, evaluation and improvement; and organizational and community transformation. She is a trained facilitator through the Institute of Cultural Affairs and the Center for Courage and Renewal. The impact of Victoria’s contributions to the community of scholars and practitioners has been recognized by the Society for Community Research and Action Early Career Award, the Don Klein Publications Award, and the American Evaluation Association Outstanding Evaluation Award. More recently, Dr. Scott was named as a Distinguished Fellow by the Society of Community Research and Action. Victoria holds an academic appointment at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as an Associate Professor of Psychological Science and Public Health Science.  She enjoys walking barefoot after a spring rainfall, grappling on the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu mat, tinkering with the piano and violin, and exploratory play with her family.