Beatrice graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in 2025. After summering with the firm, she has returned to complete her articles.
Prior to law school, Beatrice also earned a Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (minor in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice) from the University of British Columbia.
Beatrice began law school with the goal of utilizing her legal education and work experience as tools to contribute to the collective and broader labour movement across Canada. Specifically, Beatrice draws on her years of work in the skilled trades as a sealant’s specialist in her hometown of Vancouver, BC. This work experience demonstrated the importance of defined workplace protections for health and safety, discrimination, and basic employment standards for vulnerable workers. It also starkly highlighted the differences between workers’ rights in unionized and non-unionized settings.
In her graduate research, Beatrice explored the strength of provincial legal protections available to migrant farm workers in the Agricultural Stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program operationalized in Ontario and BC. Through this research, she identified gaps in the law and its enforcement that functioned to enhance the precarity of such workers within the industry and centered migrant workers as active agents of such advocacy and reform.
While studying at Osgoode, Beatrice worked as a caseworker in the Workers’ Rights Division at Parkdale Community Legal Services (PCLS) where she advocated alongside low-income workers with employment and human rights claims against their employers. She also served as a board member on the PCLS Board of Directors and was awarded the Frederick H. Zemans Prize in Poverty Law. Beatrice also served as a committee member on Osgoode’s Clinical Education Committee where she advocated on behalf of students in the continued improvement of Osgoode’s clinical education programs. Beatrice further completed a research term with Professor F. Faraday and served as a representative of Osgoode’s Labour and Employment Law Society. In her final year at Osgoode, Beatrice was a student editor on the Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal under the supervision of Professor V. De Stefano and Professor S. Slinn. Beatrice continues to volunteer her time with the Workers’ Action Centre where she collaborates with community members and workers in their wage theft claims and advocacy efforts.