Meet Victoria
From Nsuta-Atonsu in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, Victoria is a Master of Science in Library and Information Science student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She pursued this Degree after earning an undergraduate Degree in Information Science (major) and Political Science (minor) at Ghana's Premier University, the University of Ghana. She also spent two years studying towards a Post-graduate Law Degree at Ghana's Premier Private Law Faculty at MountCrest University College.
Victoria is a Scholar of the Kufuor Scholars Program, a young leadership-driven initiative of the former President of Ghana, His Excellency John Agyekum Kufuor. She is also a Commitment maker at the Clinton Foundation and has volunteered for several Non-governmental Organizations, including the Care for Humanity Initiative Foundation, Ghana.
She currently works as a Graduate Assistant and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at iSchool Help Desk. Before taking this role, She worked as a Personal Assistant to Ms. Irene Ansa-Asare and an Administrative Assistant at Horsham Education Consult. While working as a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Information Studies, University of Ghana, Victoria have taught and educated others in Information Science for almost three years. She also assisted in research work. She runs a YouTube channel - Victoria's HelpDesk, where she creates and shares a variety of content.
She simply does what she loves and loves what she does - so she strives to achieve set targets. She is good at human relations, and public speaking and capable of learning and adapting to new things.
Victoria aspires to be an Educationist and Professor of Information Science, conducting research on Digital media and information literacy, library law and ethics, e-resources and its related areas; an Entrepreneur, and be wherever she can learn, impart, and cause change. Interestingly, she wants to be in the legal field😀 teaching and practicing law😊