Victoria Chance

Victoria Chance is the co-founder and Executive Director of My Neighbor’s Voice© located in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. She is a former public and International Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge and Theatre Arts high school teacher with 28 years of experience. Her Masters of Arts is in Contemplative Education from Naropa University, in Boulder, CO, and her undergraduate degree is from Furman University, located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. She and her co-founder, Mary Anne Inglis, were awarded the Peacemaker Award from The Upstate Mediation Center in 2019. She serves on the Vestry of St James Episcopal Church.

Chance and Inglis created My Neighbor’s Voice (MNV)  in 2017 as a nonprofit established specifically to address the dissonance among neighbors in the marketplace, in the boardroom, in the schoolyard, and on the commons. Since that time, Chance and other MNV Moderators and facilitators have hosted hundreds of events, dinners, cafés, and workshops all over the country in-person and online. MNV is a vibrant grassroots organization whose local and national partners and collaborators include Furman University, St James Episcopal Church, RepublicEn, Mill Village Ministries, JustFaith Ministries, Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes, Citizens Climate Lobby, Brains, David Shaner, The State of Inclusion, Emedia Group, Hispanic Alliance Greenville SC, Bridge City Coffee, Vatalaro Studios, Lori Weitzner Studios, Our Lady of Mepkin Abbey, Parker Palmer, TEDx Greenville, Weaving in 400 Seconds 2020 (sponsored by The Aspen Institute), among others.

When not listening to her neighbors, you can find her in her extensive garden, or hanging out with her stupendous granddaughters, or reading, reading, reading. She and her husband, Potter Bob, have three responsive cats and one fluffy mutt-dog.