Julia Tétrault-Provencher (she/her) is a lawyer (Quebec Bar) specialized in public international law. Her work primarily focuses on gender-based violence, including sexual and/or reproductive violence, gender equality, non-discrimination as well as the promotion and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her legal practice seeks to respect and promote an intersectionnal, victim-centered and trauma-informed approach. She is currently working as a Junior International Lawyer for Global Rights Compliance (GRC) for the Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes Integrated Support Mechanism in Kyiv (Ukraine). Prior to joining GRC, she worked for various non-governmental organizations, including Lawyers without Borders Canada, the International Federation for Human Rights and the Global Survivors Fund.  

Julia completed the Advanced Master in Public International Law at Leiden University in the Netherlands (cum laude). She wrote her thesis on the definition of the crime of forced pregnancy as a crime against humanity (Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law, 2022) where she critically analyses the definition of this crime using an intersectional feminist perspective. She completed her Law degree at Laval University (Dean’s Honour List) and was called to the Bar in October 2018. As a feminist lawyer, Julia seeks to continue her journey advocating for the respect of sexual and reproductive health and rights with a focus on menstrual health, the prevention of morbidity related to pregnancies, abortion rights and the specific needs of pregnant persons in detention facilities. Julia joined the NAWL National Steering Committee in 2022. 

Kerri A. Froc is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick.  She is also writing a book tentatively titled, “The Gendered Constitution.” It concerns gender equality in Canadian constitutional law. 

Dr. Froc received her Ph.D. from Queen’s University (2016), her Master of Laws from the University of Ottawa (2009); her Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (1996); and her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Regina (1993).  Her research interests include sex equality, theories of constitutional interpretation, access to justice, reproductive rights, rights of political representation, and complex rights violations experienced by working women, poor women and racialized and Indigenous women.

Before completing her Ph.D., Dr. Froc spent 18 years as a lawyer, including 10 years working as a staff lawyer for the Canadian Bar Association (CBA).  While at the CBA, she worked on issues concerning diversity and inclusion in the legal profession and successfully lobbied for governmental benefits to be paid for the self-employed during parental leave.  She is a Board member of the New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity, as well as a member of the Saskatchewan (1997) and New Brunswick (2020) bars.

Lise Gotell is the Landrex Distinguished Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta where she has taught for the past 25 years. She completed her PhD in Political Science at York University in 1993, after which she held a Social Sciences and Humanities Postdoctoral Award at the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies. Lise is an internationally recognized expert on sexual consent law. She is currently engaged in research projects examining the rise of the rough sex defence and developing strategies to address the sexual assault justice gap for Alberta survivors. Lise has also held a number of academic leadership positions, including Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies, and Vice-Dean and Acting Dean of Arts.

Strongly committed to feminist activism and to the project of feminist law reform, the focus of her academic research and advocacy has been to help shape policy and awareness around violence against women. Her work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as in law reform initiatives here and in other countries. Lise served on the Board of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund and acted as National Chair between 2016-18, during which time she also contributed to numerous cases committees. Currently, she serves on the Advisory Committee of Courage to Act, helping to develop national strategies to combat campus sexual violence. In 2021, the University of Alberta recognized her public engagement through a Community Scholar Award.

Elizabeth Johannson has a B.A. (Hons.) in Theatre and Drama and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CGA). This enables her to effortlessly dance between her left brain and right brain in analyzing and navigating the world. She is currently working as a full-time accountant and pursuing part-time graduate studies at the University of Alberta in Gender and Social Justice Studies.  

Elizabeth is a passionate advocate for workers rights and spent 6 years as President of the Non-Academic Staff Association (NASA) at the University of Alberta. During her tenure she spearheaded a successful campaign for her union to affiliate with the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL). Subsequent to affiliation she served on the Executive Council of the AFL. While President of NASA she established a standing committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and a permanent EDI focused seat on the NASA Executive Board. She also coordinated the University-wide commemoration of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women for multiple years. Other experience serving on boards includes serving on the Steering Committee of the Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) and 3 years as Vice-Chair of the Alberta Public Service Pension Plan. 

Angela Lee (she/her) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law. Prior to joining the University of Alberta, Angela held part-time and full-time faculty positions at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University's Schulich School of Law, and Toronto Metropolitan University's Lincoln Alexander School of Law. She holds a JD from the University of British Columbia's Peter A Allard School of Law, and a PhD from the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law.

Angela's research and writing focuses on the intersections between food and agriculture, the environment, society, science and technology, and various forms of justice. Her work has been recognized by numerous scholarships and awards, including the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law's Shirley E Greenberg Scholarship, awarded annually to an outstanding LLM or PhD candidate who is pursuing graduate studies in law with a focus on feminist analysis of law and/or advancing women's equality. She has previously served as an elected board member of the Canadian Law and Society Association as a Graduate Student Representative from 2017-2019, and as a Director-at-Large from 2020-2023. She joined the NAWL National Steering Committee in 2024.

Elin Miller has 20 years' experience working on gender equality, international law and foreign policy, currently as Deputy Director in Canada’s G7 Presidency team in charge of the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council. She previously led the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) policy unit at Global Affairs Canada, responsible for advancing the WPS agenda through Canada’s international engagements. Elin led the development of Canada’s second National Action Plan on WPS, Canada's WPS Awards Program, and its #PeacebyHer advocacy campaign. She was an international fellow in the Kroc Institute’s Women Peacemaker program and co-chaired Canada’s WPS Advisory Group with civil society.

Elin grew up in Sweden where she completed a B.A. in Political Science at Stockholm University and an LL.B at Lund University, before she entered Sweden's diplomatic training program. While in the Swedish Foreign Service, she did diplomatic postings to Colombia, the UN in New York, and Canada. Elin also has an LL.M. from Columbia University in New York (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar). Her legal speciality is public international law, including international humanitarian law and human rights law. She was the host of the podcast Everyday Reconciliation and is currently co-authoring a book on reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in Canada. She has 3 children and a grandchild.

Dr. Sabaa Khan is a lawyer and Director-General for Québec & Atlantic Canada at the David Suzuki Foundation. She also leads the Foundation’s climate law portfolio. A member of the World Commission on Environmental Law (IUCN) and the Barreau du Québec, Sabaa has held a number of advisory appointments in international trade and environmental governance, including on the NAFTA Advisory Council on Environment (Government of Canada), the Joint Public Advisory Committee of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Chair, 2019) and the UNEP Expert Group on Legal and Institutional Infrastructures for the Sound Management of Chemicals (LIRA Guidance). She is a former Senior Researcher of the Center for Climate Change, Energy & Environmental Law (Joensuu, Finland) where she taught international trade law in the Master’s Degree Programme in Environmental Policy and Law, and led an Academy of Finland-funded research project on global environmental law and chemical pollution in the Arctic. She was also a member of international multidisciplinary research consortiums investigating emergent transboundary environmental governance problems, including short-lived climate pollutants in the Arctic, as well as pharmaceutical and plastic pollution. Her legal research has been widely published, including by the Nordic Council of Ministers, the United Nations University – Institute for Sustainability and Peace, the Leiden Journal of International Law, Cambridge University Press and the Conference of the Four Societies of international law. Sabaa holds a doctoral degree from the Faculty of Law at McGill University where she was an O’Brien Fellow of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and a Member of the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, as well as an LL.M. degree from the Université de Montréal and an LL.L. degree from the Université d’Ottawa. Sabaa is also a pianist, mother, and member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada.

Jennifer Khor (she/her) is supervising lawyer and project manager for Community Legal Assistance Society (CLAS)’s SHARP Workplaces Legal Advice Clinic providing legal advice to complainant’s of workplace sexual harassment and CLAS’s legal advice service for persons who have been sexually assaulted in BC. She is committed to ensuring that these legal services are delivered with a holistic trauma-informed approach. Jennifer regularly develops and delivers education and training. Jennifer also leads CLAS’s campaign against the misuse of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) in silencing and perpetuating trauma on complainants, and is a member of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada’s working group on NDAs.

Jennifer has dedicated her career to access to justice, human rights, and equality issues. She graduated from Mount Allison University with a Bachelor of Science and Dalhousie University with a Bachelor of Laws. She was admitted to the Law Society of British Columbia in 1997. Jennifer previously worked on legal aid initiatives for Legal Aid BC, including opening child protection legal aid offices across the province. For many years, she worked internationally to improve access to justice and human rights in Africa and Asia.

Jennifer is an active volunteer in the legal profession. She has served on the Canadian Bar Association BC Branch Policy and Advocacy, Professional Issues and Equality and Diversity Committees, and the National Access to Justice sub-committee. She was board member and co-chair of the Law and Government Liaison Committee for West Coast LEAF, board member and policy committee chair for an organization that advocates for the rights of migrant workers, and board member of a community legal aid clinic in Ontario.

Cheryl is the Executive Director of the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 1987 and completed her M.S.W. at University of Toronto in 1991. She practised at the legal clinic Justice for Children and Youth from 1991 to 2008 where she appeared at all levels of court and various administrative tribunals on behalf of young people. There she also led the clinic’s Charter litigation including the challenge to the corporal punishment defence in the Criminal Code [Canadian Foundation for Children, Youth and the Law v. Canada (2004)], the striking down of the reverse onus sections of the Youth Criminal Justice Act for adult sentencing [R. v. D.B. (2008)], and an intervention involving the right of a capable adolescent to consent to her own medical treatment [A.C. v. Manitoba Child and Family Services (2009)].

As Executive Director of the Asper Centre, she has represented the Centre at the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Conway, R v. Barton, R. v. Kokopenace and the jury vetting appeals [R v Emms, R v Davey, R v Yumnu (2012)], as well as in the Polygamy Reference case at the B.C. Supreme Court and Tanudjaja v Canada (Attorney General) at the Ontario Court of Appeal. She is the past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section and has served on the CBA National Constitutional and Human Rights Law and Child and Youth Law Sections executive.  From 2018 to 2020 she served on the Child and Family Services Review Board and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and continues to serve on the Steering Committee of the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL). In 2019, Cheryl was awarded the Law Society Medal by the Law Society of Ontario for her contributions to the legal profession.

She teaches a Constitutional Advocacy clinic and Child and Youth Law  at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.

Sarah Sinclair (she/her) is a member of Peguis First Nation, Treaty One, Manitoba, and was born and raised on Mohkinstis, Treaty 7. After attending law school at the University of British Columbia she was called in 2015 and spent her first 3 years as a lawyer in private practice at a boutique Aboriginal law firm. In 2019 Sarah was hired as the first lawyer for Sahwoo mohkaak tsi ma taas, the Indigenous justice program at Calgary Legal Guidance, where she is the Program Lawyer and Supervisor. Sahwoo mohkaak tsi ma taas’ mission is to effect systemic change in access to justice for Indigenous people. To that end, Sarah provides pro bono legal services to individuals who would not otherwise have access to a lawyer, and cultural education and competency training to legal professionals. Sarah’s passion is to help accelerate the use of Indigenous law in everyday practice throughout the legal profession. 

Sarah is a member of the Indigenous Circle of the Alberta Human Rights Commission, the Board of Directors of the Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary, and the Indigenous Advisory Committee of the Law Society of Alberta. She is an alumni of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 awards, 2021. 

Angela Ogang is a bilingual lawyer and a member of the Ontario Bar and Kenyan Bar. She was born in the Ivory Coast and attended secondary school in France where she obtained her Baccalaureate (Literature). She holds a Certificate in English Law from the London School of Economics, University of London, a Bachelor of Laws in English and French Law from the University of Essex, a French Legal Studies Diploma from the University of Strasbourg, and a Master of Laws in Corporate and Commercial Law from Queen Mary, University of London. 

Angela practices at the firm of AngeLAW in downtown Toronto and works with a diverse clientele with a particular focus on wills and estates, immigration and business law, in English and French. 

Angela values her community and volunteers regularly with Pro Bono Ontario’s Free Legal Advice Hotline and other organizations whose vision and ideals are aligned with hers, including Rotary International. She is also a member of the Executive of various sections of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA), including the Citizenship and Immigration Section, the Women Lawyers Forum, and the Young Lawyers Division. She is also currently serving as an elected member of the OBA Council and as a member of the Law Society of Kenya's Editorial Committee and Cross Border Practice & Immigration Committee.