Will Scott, PhD, is the CEO of the Toronto Public Library Foundation. He previously served as the Chief Advancement Officer at Evergreen, the largest environmental organization focused on urban issues in Canada, where he led the team that grew annual revenues by 50% and secured over $10M of capital investments for its Toronto hub, Evergreen Brickworks.
Will has worked as an educator in many settings throughout his career, including public schools, prisons, rural indigenous communities, and elite universities. As a former urban public school teacher and history professor, Will has an abiding commitment to literacy and education. He has spent much of his adult life working in multi-racial settings outside of Canada, most recently in Hawai’i, and moved home to Ontario with his husband and daughter in 2016. He received his BA (Honours) from Dartmouth College and his MA and PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley.