Julie Kerekes

Treasurer, Senior MD of Global Tax & Investor Relations, Toro

Search every verified Julie Kerekes interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2019 talk, Julie Kerekes, then an associate professor at OISE/University of Toronto, discussed a collaborative research project with a settlement organization's ESL program. She described the project as pairing her graduate students with teachers at the organization to investigate the roles, perceptions, and implications of "soft skills" instruction for immigrant and refugee learners. Kerekes noted that the project aimed to help the organization improve its offerings. During the talk, Kerekes raised questions about the framing of soft skills lessons, asking whether they risked a "deficiency orientation" that required newcomers to "acquire a Canadian persona." She stated that "the responsibility for understanding cultural differences is not only that of the newcomers" and encouraged members of the majority culture to "accept shared responsibility" for cultural and linguistic adaptation.