About Our Students

Kevin graduated from McGill University’s B.C.L./J.D. program in 2025. Prior to law school, he received a Master of Arts in philosophy from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Arts in English and philosophy from the University of Ottawa.

Kevin’s interest in workplace justice was sparked while he worked for a large grocery chain during high school: he became inspired while seeing how deeply engaged his senior colleagues were in a strike for better pay and never looked back. From thereon he took this concern for social justice to the classroom by specializing in political philosophy in his undergraduate and graduate studies. For his master’s degree he wrote a thesis arguing that multinational corporations have a normative duty to give workers a seat on their boards of directors. 

While at law school, Kevin served as an editor for the McGill Journal of Sustainable Development Law, a caseworker at McGill’s chapter of the Innocence Project, and a labour relations assistant for AMUSE (a union representing casual employees at McGill). Prior to university, Kevin was an executive committee member of the Humura Association, an organization dedicated to helping survivors of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. 

Kevin is keenly interested in any matter concerning labour law, but he is particularly passionate about collective agreement negotiations. He also has a budding interest in human rights and administrative law.

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.

Avery graduated with a J.D. from Western University, Faculty of Law. Prior to law school, Avery earned her Master’s of Arts in Human Kinetics from the University of Ottawa. During her Master’s, Avery worked as a part of a research team investigating sport for reconciliation initiatives, or the use of sport as a means to promote reconciliation between Indigenous and settler peoples, across Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa. Specifically, her research focused on the ways in which lacrosse organizations in Canada have taken up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Call’s to Action and the ways in which these efforts are gendered. Avery also completed her Bachelor’s of Arts in Gender Studies at Queen’s University. This background informs Avery’s commitment to equity and social justice.

Avery developed a passion for advocacy through her involvement in sport. As a former lacrosse player, coach, referee, and administrator, Avery has been an advocate for women, girls, and trans athletes in lacrosse, creating safe sporting spaces, and the importance of reconciliatory efforts within lacrosse. This passion for advocacy continued through her experiences advocating for the needs of students while on the executive of the University of Ottawa Human Kinetics Graduate Students Association. She continued this advocacy at Western Law as a class representative on the Student Legal Society. Avery has competed in a number of oral advocacy competitions, including the National Labour Arbitration Competition. Throughout her final year of law school, Avery had to pleasure of working for Arbitrator and Professor Michael Lynk and supported the development of educational resources for the Centre for Labour-Management Development.

Avery loves golfing, baking, reading, and the oxford comma.

Hina graduated from the combined B.C.L./J.D. program at McGill University in 2025. During law school, she took advantage of the opportunity to learn about the diverse legal traditions that thrive in Canada. In addition to studying the civil and common law, she worked as a research assistant in the field of Indigenous law and legal theory.

In each of her pursuits, Hina aims to be of service to her community. During law school, she was the Director of the Montreal Workers’ Rights Legal Clinic, a student-run organization that provides legal services to non-unionized workers whose rights have been infringed in the workplace. She was also involved with the Native Friendship Centre of Montreal as a volunteer caseworker, helping unhoused Indigenous individuals navigate the legal system. Prior to law school, Hina worked at the Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton in the Financial Empowerment Program, where she helped run services such as free low-income tax filing clinics and workshops about scam and fraud prevention for senior citizens.

Hina also holds a degree from the interdisciplinary Arts & Science program at McMaster University. During her undergraduate studies, she explored a broad variety of research interests, from her work for the MacPherson Institute on equity in post-secondary education to her co-authored paper in Environment and Planning C on the intersections between big data and civil liberties.

Ashley is a third-year J.D. candidate at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. Prior to law school, Ashley obtained a BSc. General Science and was granted early admission following three years of study in the University of Windsor’s Neuroscience program. During her undergraduate studies, Ashley researched applications of memory-based therapy for participants experiencing unresolved events. This experience now grounds her approach to legal advocacy for those undergoing stressful events.

Her commitment to the labour movement began personally through her experiences as a first-generation immigrant, helping her dad navigate factory work and workplace injuries from a young age. Her legal advocacy efforts began after her first year of law school, when she joined Justice for Migrant Workers. She was a student with the clinic for three semesters, engaging in both legal work and broader policy movements in solidarity with workers.

In law school, she works in collaboration with Wayne State University on sustainable urban development research through the United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise. She remains committed to community building though executive roles in Women and the Law, the Litigation Association, and the Harm Reduction Program. Outside of law school, Ashley enjoyed volunteering with the Multicultural Council, supporting newly settled refugee families in her community. She remains committed to a career in advocating for the human rights and dignity of all people in the workplace.

In her free time, Ashley enjoys playing the cello and learning Muay Thai.

Elina is a third-year student in the combined B.C.L/J.D. program at McGill University. Before her legal studies, she completed a Bachelor of Arts in International Development and Economics, also at McGill.

During her time at law school, Elina has been actively involved on campus and in the wider Montréal community. She volunteered with the Association for the Rights of Household and Farm workers, where she conducted research for a class action challenging the constitutionality of closed work permits. She was a founding member of the Feminist Legal Collective, where she developed and facilitated legal information presentations on tenant rights, family law, and police powers for clients of a local women’s shelter. This year, she worked as a Student Advocate at the Legal Information Clinic, where she guided and advocated for students undergoing disciplinary proceedings with the University. She also recently competed in the Wilson Moot, which inspired her to seize every opportunity to watch and learn from the firm’s litigators this summer.

In addition to her interests in labour, constitutional, and human rights law, Elina enjoys delving into varied areas of law. Currently, she is continuing to work as a research assistant with two professors at McGill, researching Islamic legal theory as well as the denial of justice in investment arbitration.

Prishni is a J.D. candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Prior to law school, she earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts in History and a Certificate in Business from Queen’s University. Throughout her undergraduate studies, Prishni’s passion for social justice shaped both her academic and community work, with her research focusing on the historical dimensions of pressing human rights issues. Her independent research project examined child marriage in India, as well as forced labour and the right to education. During her time at Queen’s, Prishni also strived to foster a supportive and safe campus environment through her role as a manager at the Peer Support Centre.

Prishni’s commitment to meaningful advocacy inspired her to pursue a legal career and continues to guide her work. As a student caseworker at Downtown Legal Services in the Employment and Academic Appeals Division, she has supported clients navigating complex workplace and educational disputes. This experience deepened her understanding of the precarity of workplace rights and the importance of robust access to justice. She has also worked with the Ontario Nonprofit Network and Justice for Children and Youth, where she conducted research to support initiatives involving constitutional litigation, public legal education, and policy development.

Outside of her academic life, Prishni is the founder of Starts With Youth, a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing gaps in community care for survivors of childhood trauma. Through this work, she has led national awareness and resource campaigns focused on trauma-informed support, survivor empowerment, and reducing cycles of re-victimization. Her experiences in the nonprofit sector have reinforced her belief in compassionate, people-centered legal advocacy as a powerful tool for lasting social change.