About Victoria
Victoria Loke is a writer and scholar, an actress and producer, a creative consultant and medicine woman, and the founder of Venus Vibes.
Her work spans academia, film, luxury branding, and spirituality, fields that might seem unrelated at first glance until you notice that a single temperament runs through all of them: a resolve to stand in the fullness of her personhood. This is the kind of range the world usually asks a person to narrow and choose — scholar or artist, intellect or intuition, function or beauty, ambition or faith — but she refused the premise, and built instead a self that holds all of it at once.
She graduated summa cum laude from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she designed her own degree and carried out doctorate-level interdisciplinary research across cognitive neuroscience and comparative literature, originating her own academic concept, kinesthetic meaning-making, on the role of movement and space in how human beings make meaning, and culminating her studies in a colloquium thesis on cognitive decoloniality from an Asian perspective. Her academic background shapes her approach to all her work: refusing to outsource her conclusions, she does the original source work and arrives at her own.
After graduating, she went on to lend her multidisciplinary talents to many prominent New York institutions, from media conglomerates like the New York Observer and Observer Media to non-profit organizations like the Museum of Chinese in America and the American Federation of the Arts. In 2017, she returned to Asia and built a by-referral creative consultancy, taking her particular expertise in brand revitalization and strategic communication to the public, and has since worked with emerging businesses across beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and the arts, with clients from over 30 different countries.
Victoria is also well-known as an actress and producer. She made her feature-film debut as Fiona Cheng in the hit Hollywood movie and book franchise Crazy Rich Asians (2018), and has since gone on to star in and produce her own independent projects in partnership with high-profile brands like CHANEL and Calvin Klein, collaborating with female directors and writers and bringing her consulting experience to her work in the film industry. A sought-after face for luxury houses, she has also fronted campaigns for SK-II, Mouawad, and Penfolds. She has exhibited as an artist in New York, London, and Singapore, with her work and perspective featured in leading publications worldwide such as Vanity Fair, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Forbes, the New York Times' T Magazine, and the BBC, among others.
A longtime advocate for women and children, Victoria frequently lends her voice to campaigns and conversations on womanhood and cultural change. She has taken her advocacy to keynote stages around the world, from the 2019 MIT Asia Business Conference in Boston where she delivered the closing keynote on the changing cultural landscape and dynamics between Asia and America, to the 2024 Her World Tribe Symposium in Singapore, an exclusive gathering of female leaders ranging from C-suite executives to iconic figures in arts & culture, where she headlined the panel on navigating traditional culture vis-a-vis a modern society as a woman in Asia.
What began as an independent creative consultancy has since grown into Venus Vibes, the platform through which she now does her central work. Venus Vibes is a spirituality platform for the modern Asian woman that synthesizes Eastern and Western philosophy, indigenous shamanic medicine, biblical scholarship, modern and Vedic astrology, quantum physics and cognitive neuroscience, anchored in Jesus as the frequency of unconditional love. Trained in the Andean shamanic tradition through the Munay Ki rites, Victoria writes and teaches for the woman who has met every expectation the world set for her and begun to sense there is something more underneath. In many ways, it is the work all the others were preparing her for.
Through all of it, the rooms might have changed from lecture halls to film sets, to boardrooms and now her own platform, but the person has not. Victoria is the same person in every room she walks into, and she is always glad to be brought a real question — so if you have one, reach out.
