Virginia Ridley

Workshop info and bio

Workshop: Organize your life and your work

Room: Salon B

In this workshop, Virginia will review some common project management platforms (Sunsama, Monday, etc) as well as provide some general organization hacks to help you be more efficient in your work and maybe in your everyday life too! 

Virginia Ridley is CALM’s coordinator. Drawn to the labour movement through her work with children and youth, she has held multiple positions within her local and became active provincially with OPSEU, writing for and editing inSolidarity from 2011-2016. She is a community activist, policy analyst, social justice fighter, and a believer in grassroots mobilizing. Virginia is a generalist who believes in life-long learning. She is currently working on her Bookkeeping Certificate, is self-taught in a number of online programs and has a certificate in Human Services, a diploma in Child & Youth Work, and has studied Social Development Studies. She served as a municipally elected official from 2014-2018, where she gained extensive experience in politics, political strategy, and media relations.