JAW Conference Brochure 2024

Territorial Acknowledgement We would like to respectfully acknowledge the territory in which we gather. The University of Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomie. We are grateful to the Three Fires Confederacy for the use of this land.

Justice at Work Conference Organizers Co-Chairs of the Justice at Work Student Committee Joyce Dason Pratibha Sivasithamparam Committee Members Alyxis Watson Jacqueline Gabriel Cindy Lui Madeline Jones Luis Lara Palacios Rebecca Zuker Pro Bono Students Canada Volunteers Rachel Mccallister De Abreu Kunal Variawa Jonathan Solomon Rebecca Zuker Social Justice Career Coordinator Kathleen Behan

Welcome The University of Windsor, Faculty of Law is proud to be hosting its 16th annual Justice at Work (“JAW”) Public Interest Career Conference. Our Faculty and student body are strongly committed to advancing social justice. This conference allows students to engage with public interest and social justice lawyers and to explore possible career paths. We hope this conference will provide them with guidance and inspiration.

We are thrilled to welcome Archana Ravichandradeva ‘18 as our distinguished Keynote Speaker for the upcoming event. Archana, a passionate advocate for justice, currently serves as the Executive Director of People for Equality and Relief in Lanka. Archana will share insights from her diverse experiences and shed light on the challenges and triumphs in the pursuit of justice, accountability, and selfdetermination for marginalized communities.

There will also be a panel discussion on “The Spectrum of Social Justice Careers,” discussing the diverse pathways available in a social justice career, providing valuable insights for students aspiring to make a meaningful impact. This year’s networking session is attended by both public interest and private practice lawyers. The areas of law represented are detailed in the index at the end of this brochure.

The Justice at Work conference was made possible through the collaboration of faculty, administration, staff and student groups.

We want to thank the representatives of the participating organizations for dedicating their time to assist Windsor Law students in their transition into the legal profession.

Sincerely, Kathleen Behan, Social Justice Career Coordinator Joyce Dason and Pratibha Sivasithamparam, Co-Chairs of the Justice at Work Student Committee

Justice at Work Conference Agenda Wednesday, January 31, 2024 Panel: The Spectrum of Social Justice Careers 10:00M-11:30AM Room L2-2160 Panelists: • Joanne Lau, Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic • Andrew Bashi, Great Lakes Environmental Law Center • Sarah Rosales Zelaya ’21, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health • Fatima Ahmed ’20, Level Justice Moderators: • Committee Co-Chairs Joyce Dason & Pratibha Sivasithamparam

Keynote Address & Lunch 12:00PM-1:30PM Moot Court Room Keynote Speaker: Archana Ravichandradeva ‘18, People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (“PEARL”) and the Peel District School Board Lunch will be provided.

Networking Session 1:45PM-3:30PM Jamie Johnson Student Lounge Participating Organizations & Representatives: • Canadian Environmental Law Association o Theresa McClenaghan

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Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (“CAMH”) o Sarah Rosales Zelaya Community Legal Aid o Harpreet Burmy o Fatima Bata Great Lakes Environmental Law Center o Andrew Bashi Knowles Family Law o Cristopher Knowles Lakeshore Legal Aid o Edyth Abraham o Tracie Boyd o Kyle Keenan Legal Assistance of Windsor o David Cote o Rima Asfour Level Justice o Fatima Ahmed People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (“PEARL”) o Archana Ravichandradeva Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice o John Philo Windsor Essex Bilingual Legal Clinic o Kevin Pinsonneault o Amy Lavoie Windsor Law LLM Program o Dylan Margerison o Saranga Ugalmugle

Keynote Speaker: Archana Ravichandradeva

Archana Ravichandradeva serves as the Executive Director of People for Equality and Relief in Lanka, a nonprofit organization dedicated to issues of justice, accountability and self-determination for the Tamil people in the North-East of Sri Lanka. She is currently pursuing an LLM at the University of Victoria in human rights law and working as the Acting Exec Lead of the Human Rights Office at the Peel District School Board.

She holds a a BA Hons from the University of Toronto and a JD from the University of Windsor.

During her time at Windsor Law, Archana was a member of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, World University Services of Canada. She also was the Justice at Work Conference Chair, an upper year mentor, career services representative, and a research assistant.

She articled and practiced with a Bay Street firm before pursuing her human rights career.

Panel: The Spectrum of Social Justice Careers Joanne Lau Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (CSALC) Joanne Lau is a graduate of the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law and is presently the Interim Director of Legal Services of the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (CSALC) where she was the staff lawyer for over 20 years. During her time there, she represented clients before the Social Benefits Tribunal, Immigration Appeal Division and Federal Court on immigration and social assistance matters. She was formerly a presiding member of the Consent and Capacity Board of Ontario and is currently a member of the Toronto Licensing Tribunal and the Tribunal Committee of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants adjudicating professional misconduct cases.

Fatima Ahmed Level Justice Fatima is a Pakistani-Canadian immigrant, lawyer, and social justice advocate. She is passionate about promoting human rights, immigrant and refugee rights, as well as advocating for intersectional feminist approaches. She obtained her undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of British Columbia. She also completed law school at the University of Windsor, where she earned the Windsor Law Equity and Diversity Award as well as the JW

Whiteside Award in 2020 for contributions to the community. She has also been a recipient of the Social Justice Fellowship in 2019, allowing her to work with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Toronto. She is currently working on her Master of Law degree at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Fatima’s passion for social justice has enabled her to work in different areas over the years, including human rights law, immigration and refugee law, as well as legal education. She aims to continue working collaboratively and respectfully with marginalized communities in order to promote equity and access to justice.

Andrew Bashi Great Lakes Environmental Law Center Andrew joined the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center in April of 2020, returning to his home state of Michigan after nearly a decade of practicing law and teaching in Illinois and New York. Andrew’s passion lies in the advancement of racial, environmental, and economic justice, as well as the welfare and rights of the animals and ecosystems with which we share this planet.

Upon graduating from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2012, he founded a practice in Chicago, through which he provided aggressive defense for the accused as well as know-your-rights outreach to communities of color and activists. Most recently, Andrew served as a course instructor for conservation and One Health courses at Cornell University under the tutelage of rhino conservationist, Robin Radcliffe.

Andrew is a trained raptor handler. He has donated hundreds of hours to wildlife hospitals and rehabilitators. One of his greatest joys is gardening.

Sarah Rosales Zelaya Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Sarah Rosales Zelaya is an in-house litigation lawyer working as Clinical Legal Counsel at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto. In this role, Sarah provides legal advice to clinicians in their daily practice.

She also provides clinicians with support and legal representation with matters before the Consent and Capacity Board and Ontario Review Board and their appeals to the Superior Court of Justice and Court of Appeal for Ontario, as well as with matters involving regulatory Colleges and their appeals to the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board. She is involved in providing education on the area of mental health law both internally and externally and assists with policy work within the hospital. Sarah was called to the Bar in March 2023. She obtained her Juris Doctor from the University of Windsor in 2021 and a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Carleton University in 2017.

Career Networking & Information Session: Participating Organizations Canadian Environmental Law Association Canadian Environmental Law Association (“CELA”) is a legal aid clinic dedicated to environmental equity, justice, and health. Founded in 1970, CELA is one of the oldest advocates for environmental protection in the country. With funding from Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), CELA provides free legal services relating to environmental justice in Ontario, including representing low-income and vulnerable or disadvantaged communities in litigation. CELA also works on environmental legal education and reform initiatives.

CELA exists to ensure that low-income and disadvantaged people have access to environmental justice through courts and tribunals. As long as communities face barriers accessing environmental justice, there will be a need for CELA’s work. CELA has been part of shaping innovative collaborations to improve sustainability and human health including the Low Income Energy Network, Green Prosperity, RentSafe, the Canadian Partnership for Children’s Health and Environment, and many more.

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is Canada's largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world's leading research centres in its field. CAMH is fully affiliated with the University of Toronto and is a Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre.

With a dedicated staff of more than 5,000 physicians, clinicians, researchers, educators and support staff, CAMH offers outstanding clinical care to more than 38,000 patients each year. The organization conducts groundbreaking research, provides expert training to health care professionals and scientists, develops innovative health promotion and prevention strategies, and advocates on public policy issues at all

levels of government. And through our Foundation, we're working to raise tens of millions of additional dollars to fund new programs and research and augment services.

Community Legal Aid Community Legal Aid is a joint project of the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law and Legal Aid Ontario. We provide legal services for lowincome residents of Windsor-Essex county and full-time University of Windsor undergraduate students. For over 50 years our clinic has served as a learning environment for law students to build their advocacy and litigation skills, while providing necessary legal services to our community.

We represent our clients in legal matters in the following areas; criminal law, employment law, family law, housing law, elder law, consumer protection and small claims court matters. Each case must meet our financial eligibility criteria. Every case is different. We will assess the merits of your case and set out a strategic plan for your matter. CLA may offer summary legal information, negotiate on your behalf with the other side or represent you at court or before a tribunal.

CLA also participates in community outreach programs. Our lawyers and law students conduct legal information sessions within the community.

Great Lakes Environmental Law Center The Great Lakes Environmental Law Center is Michigan’s foremost environmental legal advocacy organization. When environmental issues threaten our communities, residents deserve an advocate that will work with them to create multi-faceted solutions that will achieve their goals.

We focus on addressing environmental issues impacting people of color and low-income because these communities are often more severely impacted by environmental issues and often lack access to legal services.

Community lawyering is central to our legal advocacy at the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. Through community lawyering, we seek to utilize our services to empower community residents, environmental advocates, and policymakers throughout Michigan to create effective, multi-faceted strategies to address environmental issues that are impacting Michigan residents and create systemic change. Here are some examples of issues we’ve worked on recently: clean air, clean water, hazardous waste management, urban farming, and nonprofit law for environmental justice organizations.

Knowles Family Law Christopher G Knowles, Barrister & Solicitor was established in 2005, serving the Windsor, Ontario region as a family lawyer. Services offered include reproductive and fertility law, adoption, parenting time and decision-making orders, collaborative family law, child protection law, separation agreements, Voice of the Child Reports, and child and spousal support.

Lakeshore Legal Aid Lakeshore Legal Aid is a not-for-profit law firm providing a range of free civil legal services to people who are low income, seniors, and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in our communities. Lakeshore Legal Aid takes pride in providing Michigan with excellence in advocacy and civil legal counsel since 1966. Our attorneys offer professional legal advice and counseling, document review and preparation, negotiation, mediation, and representation in court to improve the legal status of the men, women, and families we serve. Lakeshore assisted over 10,300 clients in 2022, and their Counsel & Advocacy Law Line received 147,891 calls for legal assistance.

Services provided by Lakeshore Legal Aid include family law, protection from abuse, housing, consumer, public benefits, income tax, individual rights, employment, estates & guardianships, expungement, education, senior services, and LGBTQ+ rights.

Legal Assistance of Windsor Legal Assistance of Windsor (LAW) was founded in 1974 as a clinical learning project of the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. Its goal was to provide an environment in which students could experience issues relating to access to justice in the context of a “storefront clinic” in downtown Windsor by examining the law and the legal profession in context, while helping to provide legal services to those who were unable to pay a private lawyer and were unable to obtain a legal aid certificate.

In developing the program, it was recognized that the legal problems of the disadvantaged were often interrelated with social problems.

Consequently, an interdisciplinary approach to the delivery of services was developed, which combined the expertise of the legal and social work professions to enable law students to work collaboratively in developing an appreciation and understanding of the knowledge, skills and theories of practice of both professions.

Level Justice Level is a Canadian justice education charity. We engage youth, law students, lawyers, and social justice advocates across Canada to disrupt prejudice, build empathy, and advance human rights. Together, we change lives through law.

Level’s Social Justice Fellowship Program helps law students across the country to organize community events, inform their peers, and host conferences. Their Blazing Trails Mentorship Program is a unique mentorship program aimed at helping law students engage with daring lawyers who have blazed trails and defined their own metrics of success.

Level’s Youth Programs are an Indigenous Youth Outreach Program, a Black Youth Justice Program, and an Environmental Justice Program. For lawyers, Level offers a Facing Resistance Speaker Series and sessions on Cultural Humility and Empathy Training.

People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) People for Equality and Relief in Lanka (PEARL) is a grassroots organization led by human rights activists concerned about the situation in Sri Lanka. PEARL uses research and advocacy to promote and protect the human rights of Tamil people in the North-East of Sri Lanka. We have conducted extensive field research on issues such as accountability, militarization, impunity, memorialization, and transitional justice. PEARL’s advocacy includes consistent and thorough engagement with members of the international community, including the United Nations in New York and Geneva, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, European Union states, and other governments. We mobilize communities across the globe to fight injustice and raise awareness about the situation in Sri Lanka.

Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice The Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice is a national non-profit, public-interest law center. We are headquartered in Detroit, but our work helps people and communities across the United States.

We provide advocacy, representation, education, research, and technical support to empower low-income workers, their families, and community groups seeking systemic change toward economic and social justice. Our work has included supporting grassroots efforts for living wage ordinances, combating wage theft, opposing discrimination in the nation's workplaces, promoting economic security after mass job loss, seeking real economic and quality of life benefits for communities impacted by large-scale development projects, challenging environmental racism, opposing the loss of democratic rights in low income communities, and pressing for corporate and government accountability in myriad other ways.

Windsor Essex Bilingual Legal Clinic The Windsor Essex Bilingual Legal Clinic is a non-profit community legal clinic providing legal services to low-income individuals living the

Windsor Essex and Essex County region. The Clinic offers free advice, representation and referrals in both French and English to low-income residents of Windsor and Essex County. The services are provided by staff lawyers and paralegals experienced in administrative law. They represent clients, give legal opinions or make appropriate referrals. The Clinic also engages in law reform activities, community outreach and public legal education. Its vision is social justice, empowerment and respect for language rights in our community.

Windsor Law’s Master of Laws (LLM) Program Windsor Law’s LLM program has two distinctly unique characteristics.

1. An emphasis on rigorous scholarship centred on our institutional themes of Access to Justice and Transnational Law. 2. An innovative experiential learning component that allows students in the LLM with Certificate in University Teaching and Learning stream to complete a certificate in university teaching, and to engage in law teaching during the course of their study.

Students may choose from two streams: a one-year (12-month) regular LLM or a two-year (24-month) LLM with Certificate in University Teaching and Learning. The central requirement for both streams is the completion of original publishable research. This major written piece of original research, or thesis, may be submitted as one single document or as a set of related publishable papers addressing a single research question and totalling approximately 100-125 pages.

Networking Session: Participating Individuals Keynote and Panelists Please note that keynote speaker Archana Ravichandradeva and panelists Fatima Ahmed, Andrew Bashi, and Sarah Rosales Zelaya will be joining the Networking Session as well. Please see the sections above for their biographies.

Canadian Environmental Law Association Theresa McClenaghan Theresa was appointed as Executive Director of the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) in November 2007. She holds an LL.B. (1984), a B.Sc. (Geol.) (2020) both from Western University and an LL.M. in constitutional law from Osgoode Law School at York (1999), with a major paper focused on section 35 of the Charter and Indigenous environmental governance. Theresa also earned a diploma in Environmental Health Science from McMaster University (1999).

She was called to the Bars of Manitoba and Ontario. Focusing on environmental health and environmental safety, particularly in the areas of energy and water, Theresa has practised public interest environmental law for over 25 years both in private practice and then at CELA. In 2006-7, Theresa was senior water policy advisor to the Ontario Minister of the Environment, responsible for overseeing the Clean Water Act passage and implementing the remaining Walkerton Inquiry recommendations. She has represented clients at the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal and Trial Division and provincial courts and Courts of Appeal on a range of matters including pesticide by-laws,

the Oncomouse patent, environmental assessment and constitutional matters.

Theresa was co-counsel representing the Concerned Walkerton Citizens at the Walkerton Inquiry and has appeared at various environmental, land use and energy tribunals on her clients' behalf. Theresa has appeared before the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission on nuclear power environmental assessment and licensing matters. She frequently serves on government and NGO advisory panels on water protection.

Community Legal Aid Harpreet Burmy Harpreet Burmy is a dedicated legal professional committed to serving her legal community. With extensive experience as a practitioner and educator, she has made consistent contributions to family law and access to justice. As an alumna of Windsor Law, Harpreet remained closely connected to the university. During her law school years, she volunteered at CLA, gaining experience as a caseworker, senior caseworker and group leader. This early exposure instilled in her empathy and a strong desire to advocate for marginalized individuals and families. After earning her joint Canadian and US law degrees, Harpreet practiced in Family Law, Civil, and Estate Litigation. Her private practice experience honed her legal skills and deepened her understanding of the complexities of these practice areas.

Harpreet joined CLA as Review Counsel in 2014. She played a crucial role in developing the Family Law Practice Program at CLA, developing the academic curriculum and liaising with various stakeholders, community partners and the bench to permit law students to appear at the Ontario Court of Justice. As Acting Clinic Director at CLA, Harpreet ensures the clinic provides essential services to the community while

preparing future lawyers for client centered practice. Harpreet taught as a sessional instructor at St. Clair College and the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. As Acting Clinic Director and a legal educator, she ensures that CLA continues to remain a central hub for legal education and community service.

Community Legal Aid Fatima Bata Fatima is aahem second-year law student in the Dual JD program at the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. Originally from Alberta, Fatima obtained her Psychology degree at the University of Calgary. During her undergraduate studies, she summered at family, corporate, and tax law firms, and competed as a finalist on the University of Calgary's Moot Court Society. In the summer of 1L, Fatima joined Community Legal Aid as a Summer Student and worked on criminal, family, employment, and landlord-tenant matters. She hopes to further this skillset by building a career in public interest law.

Knowles Family Law Cristopher Knowles Christopher G Knowles, Barrister & Solicitor was established in 2005, serving the Windsor, Ontario region as a family lawyer. Christopher is a former law clerk to the now retired Honourable Justice Robert Decary of the Federal Court of Appeal. Christopher G Knowles, Barrister & Solicitor has been devoted to the practice of family and child protection law cases. Christopher believes all family law cases that involve children are about the best interests of the children.

He strongly believes that the children's wishes must be heard and considered at all times.

Christopher accepts cases that cover a wide range of family law, but his passion lies in representing children in child protection matters and parenting disputes.

Christopher is a personal rights panel member for the Office of the Children's Lawyer, as well as an empaneled agent for the Director of the Family Responsibility Office. He is able to represent children in family law cases in respect to custody and access disputes where the child is the subject, as well as prosecute delinquent support payors.

Christopher completed his training to become a designated Collaborative Legal Professional with the goal of offering clients a process to resolve their family law issues outside of Court. Christopher completed his training to provide Voice of the Child Reports in Court proceedings and Mediations.

Lakeshore Legal Aid Tracie Boyd Tracie Boyd is a Managing Attorney at Lakeshore Legal Aid, and has been with Lakeshore Legal Aid for over 11 years. She enjoys teaching real people to be better legal advocates, and teaching lawyers to be better real people. She previously served as Assistant Friend of the Court, Legal Director for the Third Judicial Circuit Court. Tracie is a graduate of Wayne State University Law School, where she participated in the Free Legal Aid Clinic, Women's Law Caucus, Environmental Law Society, and Student Newspaper.

Lakeshore Legal Aid Kyle Keenan Kyle is the Deputy Director of the Detroit Eviction Prevention office at Lakeshore Legal Aid. He previously practiced in the PostConviction Relief/Appellate Division Missouri State Public Defender's Office. Before launching his public interest career, Kyle worked in private practice in Louisiana. As a law student, he assisted clients seeking asylum and/or refugee status in the United States through a clinic at his law school, Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. He also completed an internship with Silenced Abused Victims Effort, an advocacy group for children and families suffering through family court. Kyle studied comparative international law at the University of Vienna and International Law and Legal Studies at the Universidad Latina de Panamá. He is a licensed attorney in 5 states.

Legal Assistance of Windsor David Cote David Cote joined LAW as staff lawyer in January 2021, and is now the Director of Legal Services. He is a graduate of the University of Ottawa and has worked in public interest law since 2006 in South Africa and Canada. David provides representation and student supervision in immigration and refugee law in the clinic.

Legal Assistance of Windsor Rima Asfour Rima is the articling student at Legal Assistance of Windsor. She works in three different fields at the clinic: social benefits, housing and immigration. She is grateful to be gaining meaningful experience in social justice and advocacy and am excited to learn more.

Rima graduated from Windsor Law in 2023. During law school, she joined the Women of Colour Legal Alliance of Windsor (WOCLAW) to help foster a space for women of colour in the legal field. She also graduated from UWindsor in 2020 for her undergraduate degree. She completed an undergraduate thesis about Indigenous selfdetermination and inclusion in educational policies.

Rima loves going to local cafés and absolutely loves iced coffee, watching movies (action & rom-coms especially) and spending time with family and friends!

Sugar Law Center for Economic & Social Justice John Philo John Philo is Executive and Legal Director of the Sugar Law Centre for Economic and Social Justice. He has litigated public interest cases throughout Michigan representing low-income communities and working people on matters of constitutional, civil rights and employment law. John serves on the executive committee of the National Lawyer Guild's Labor & Employment Committee and is a past president of the guild's Detroit and Michigan Chapter. His articles have appeared in publications including Wayne Law's The Journal of Law in Society and the Willamette

University Law Review. He has been an invited speaker at conferences and seminars of numerous national and state bar associations. John graduated from Saint Louis University School of Law in 1992 and attended McGill University for the completion of his LLM.

Kevin Pinsonneault Windsor Essex Bilingual Legal Clinic Kevin J. Pinsonneault received his Certificate of Human Resource and Diploma of Business Administration – Marketing from St. Clair College of Applied Arts & Technology in 1997. He further went on to receive a Diploma of International Trade in 1999. From 1999 to 2004, he continued his studies at the University of Windsor, receiving a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), a Master of Business Administration Fast Track Co-op and finally a Bachelor of Law. He also worked at the University’s Community Legal Aid as a Caseworker, then did his Articling at Mousseau, DeLuca, McPherson, Prince LLP in Windsor in 2006. He moved on as an Associate Lawyer with Gino Morga, Q.C. while also teaching part-time at St. Clair College of Applied Arts & Technology and was a Provincial Crown Per Diem in 2009. He is currently the Executive Director of the Windsor-Essex Bilingual Legal Clinic since 2012 where he began as a Clinic Staff Lawyer in 2009, focusing on legal and social welfare issues.

Kevin has experience representing clients before administrative tribunals regarding Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support Program, Canada Pension Plan (Disability), Human Rights and Employment Law.

Amy Lavoie Windsor Essex Bilingual Legal Clinic Amy Lavoie received her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Windsor in 2003 and was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2004.

Ms. Lavoie also received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Brunswick in 2000.

Following her call to the Bar, Ms. Lavoie practised exclusively in the area of family law with the law firm of Hogarth Hermiston Severs, LLP, from July 2004 to September 2012, where she gained significant litigation experience in all facets of family law, including divorce, custody, access, support and property division issues.

In October of 2012, Ms. Lavoie accepted a position as a staff lawyer with the Windsor-Essex Bilingual Legal Clinic where her practice focuses on social assistance law, specifically on matters dealing with Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support Program, and Criminal Injuries Compensation. Ms. Lavoie is also active in community development and public legal education.

Ms. Lavoie was also a sessional instructor with the St. Clair College Paralegal Program, from September 2013 to December 2015, teaching the Tribunal Practices and Procedures course, as well as the Advocacy course.

Windsor Law LLM Program Dylan Margerison Dylan is the Assistant to the Associate Dean (Research & Graduate Studies). He can answer your questions about the Windsor Law LLM Program!

Windsor Law LLM Program Saranga Ugalmugle Saranga Ugalmugle is a social justice and social movement advocate with over five years of experience in India. She has litigated matters pertaining to women's rights, children's rights, minority rights, labor rights, and environmental justice among others in the High court of Bombay at Bombay and Goa. She is a legal researcher who has also been associated with socio-political and civil liberties groups over the years. She has been part of fact-finding committees to Kashmir. Saranga is interested in questions of law, society, and its relationship with violence.

In 2021, she completed her graduate studies in Law and Development at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore. She completed her Bachelor’s degree at ILS Law College, Pune, India in 2016.

Saranga is currently pursing her LLM with Certificate in University Teaching and Learning at the University of Windsor where she is researching the viability of prison abolition in India. She is a 2022 fellow of the Transnational Law and Racial Justice Network and the editorial assistant to the TWAILR editorial collective.

Index of Participants’ Areas of Interest If you are interested in a particular topic, please use this index to help you find a conference participant who can talk to you about it. We have created this index based on the participant biographies provided above and LinkedIn profiles. Please note that participants may have practice areas of interest beyond what is listed here. We encourage you to speak with them and learn more!

Administrative Law • Joanne Lau • Amy Lavoie • Theresa McClenaghan • Kevin Pinsonneault • Sarah Rosales Zelaya Alternative Dispute Resolution • Tracie Boyd • Christopher Knowles Business & Corporate Law • Harpreet Burmy Child Protection • Christopher Knowles Children’s Rights • Saranga Ugalmugle Civil Litigation • Harpreet Burmy • Tracie Boyd Civil Rights • John Philo Constitutional Law • Theresa McClenaghan • John Philo Criminal Law • Andrew Bashi

Criminal Law (Cont’d) • Tracie Boyd • Kyle Keenan Economic Justice • Andrew Bashi • John Philo Education • Archana Ravichandradeva Employment Law • John Philo • Kevin Pinsonneault Environmental Law • Andrew Bashi • Theresa McClenaghan • Archana Ravichandradeva Estates • Harpreet Burmy Family Law • Tracie Boyd • Harpreet Burmy • Amy Lavoie • Kyle Keenan • Christopher Knowles

Human Rights • Fatima Ahmed • Kevin Pinsonneault • Archana Ravichandradeva Immigration & Refugee Law • Fatima Ahmed • Tracie Boyd • David Cote • Kyle Keenan • Joanne Lau • Archana Ravichandradeva Intellectual Property • Tracie Boyd International Law • Kyle Keenan Intersectional Feminism • Fatima Ahmed

Labour Rights • Saranga Ugalmugle Mental Health Law • Sarah Rosales Zelaya Minority Rights • Saranga Ugalmugle Policy • Sarah Rosales Zelaya Racial Justice • Andrew Bashi Real Estate • Harpreet Burmy Social Assistance/Welfare • Joanne Lau • Amy Lavoie • Kevin Pinsonneault Women’s Rights • Saranga Ugalmugle

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