Ruby Latif

Ruby Latif has more than 15 years of experience building strategic partnerships and advancing community-centered initiatives. She is the founder and principal consultant of Milieu Strategy and Consulting Inc., an organization working to create meaningful community partnerships across the public, private and non-profit sectors. Through her consultancy work and her time working in the offices of former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and City of Toronto Mayor John Tory, Latif has worked with more than 1,000 community groups across Ontario, engaged with more than 500 ethnic media outlets and facilitated more than 400 community focused events. Her research and published journal articles focus on reducing barriers for underrepresented groups in leadership positions, on media representations of women and racialized minorities, and creating partnerships to advance diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Latif is a former Young Women of Distinction recipient, a Zonta Young Women in Public Affairs Award recipient and was named one of the most influential South Asian Canadians by South Asian Generation Next magazine.