Kathleen Larsen has been an active and enthusiastic member of TEAM for four years and was a TEAM Park Board candidate in the 2022 election.

 

Born in Vancouver and raised in Victoria, Kathleen moved back to Vancouver after receiving a BA from the University of Victoria with a double major in Urban Geography and Psychology. She then completed a Master’s program at the School of Community and Regional Planning at UBC and subsequently a Certificate in Urban Design from SFU in 2011.

 

After 26 years of professional municipal planning experience in the Lower Mainland as a Community and Heritage Planner, she moved  to Toronto from 2017 to 2020 where she was appointed by Toronto City Council to the Committee of Adjustment for Toronto downtown. On returning to Vancouver, Kathleen was appointed by Vancouver City Council in 2021 to her current position as a Director at the Vancouver Heritage Foundation.

 

On a personal note, she is a single parent to a now-grown daughter with a Master’s Degree who she says always presents a new fresh perspective and widens the lens! 

 

Kathleen has put her name forward to run as a Council Candidate in the 2026 election due to a very real feeling of desperation about the future of Vancouver.

 

As a TEAM Council Candidate Kathleen hopes to use her wide variety of professional experience and knowledge to advance the TEAM platform. She is committed to community representation and a planning-based approach and notes that it’s so important to not only listen but hear what the residents are saying.