Dr. Grace Wong Sneddon is an adjunct professor in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies and an associate fellow in the Centre for the Studies of Religion and Societies at the University of Victoria. She is the Ombudsperson at TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre.

Dr. Wong Sneddon has an Interdisciplinary Ph.D in Anthropology and Pacific and Asian Studies from the University of Victoria. Her areas of research include: race and gender in popular culture, Asian North American identity, the Chinese diasporic culture, women in leadership, equity, diversity and inclusion.  Her research has informed her extensive experience in the areas of educational and employment equity and she consults widely with post-secondary institutions and national laboratories locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Her identity as a Chinese Canadian woman centers her work. She is passionately committed to her local community and is President of the Hoy Sun Ning Yung Benevolent Association, Chair of the Victoria Chinese Museum Society, President of the Honorary Governors at the Victoria Foundation and Director on the Pacific Opera Victoria Board.