Sydney joined Cavalluzzo as an associate in 2021 after summering and articling with the firm.
Sydney graduated from the McGill University Faculty of Law, on unceded Kanien’Keha:Ka territory, in 2019 with degrees in civil and common law. After her first year of law school, Sydney volunteered at a community legal clinic for migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. She remained involved in the movement for migrant rights as a caseworker at the Immigrant Workers’ Centre in Montreal. Sydney furthered her commitment to social and economic justice as a board member of a support staff union at McGill where she advocated for increased job security and pay equity for casual workers. During law school, Sydney also coordinated the Disability and Law program, served as the Director of Communications at the Legal Information Clinic at McGill, and worked as a research assistant for Professor Adelle Blackett at the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory. She participated in the Indigenous Field Studies Course in Kahnawake, Mohawk territory, and spent a semester on exchange at the University of New South Wales in Australia, on unceded Bedegal territory.
Since moving to Toronto in 2012, Sydney has been actively involved in community organizing and research, particularly around climate justice and corporate accountability in the Canadian mining industry. This work, alongside her experience as a union member and her academic background in anthropology and gender studies, informs her ongoing dedication to workers’ rights, social justice, and movement lawyering.
Sydney is from Oshawa, the traditional territories of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation, and is currently living and working on lands governed by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant in Tkaronto. She is committed to international solidarity work with Indigenous and colonized peoples