About
Most of the time, I’m a lawyer supporting Indigenous peoples, persons and organizations across Canada in their fight for justice. I sometimes write commentary on related issues.
In my spare time I’m often baking. In 2017, I had the incredible experience baking in the Great Canadian Baking Show tent, in season 1. Catch us on CBC Gem and Netflix Canada.
I grew up in Thornhill, just north of Toronto, Ontario and went to university in Montreal, Cardiff (UK) and Winnipeg. I’m now based in Toronto, and work in Ontario, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories.
Sometimes I write commentary on current events:
“The invocations of the rule of law are not simply innocent pleas to neutrality and lawfulness; they’re self-serving calls to once again disenfranchise Indigenous people so that settlers won’t have to be inconvenienced.”
— Stop using the ‘rule of law’ as a weapon against Indigenous peoples,
The Globe and Mail, 19 February 2020
“…Indigenous people are being criminalized and incarcerated at a rate that even the most dedicated cheerleaders for the colonial order being maintained would surely have difficulty justifying.
The solution that remains is systematic decarceration: the intentional and directed reduction of the number of Indigenous people in jails and prisons as a policy goal in and of itself.”
— The Indigenous incarceration crisis demands a bolder response: Decarceration, The Globe and Mail, 11 May 2022
“To call these numbers of incarcerated a crisis would be the understatement of the century. We cannot as a society be okay with this, and we cannot be okay with moving on from this, as we do with so many other headlines, without taking real action.”
— Staggering number of Indigenous people in jail is a Canadian crisis,
Toronto Star, 3 July 2018