Board of Directors
JESSIE STIRLING – PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD
Elected to the Board: November 21, 2018
Jessie Stirling is a Kwakwaka’wakw woman of the Wei WaiKum First Nation in Campbell River, BC. She received her JD/ Certificate in Aboriginal Legal Studies from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2020. Prior to law school, Jessie graduated with distinction from the University of British Columbia with a BA in Political Science and worked on a human rights campaign confronting anti-homeless and anti-substance user stigma in BC at Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. During law school, Jessie was a member of the Asper Centre working group on Indigenous Child Welfare, an associate editor for the Indigenous Law Journal, and a volunteer at the 519 Legal Clinic, Justice for Children and Youth, and the family courts. In 2018, Jessie worked under Professor Kent Roach as a Gerald W. Schwartz Fellow researching and writing about the wrongful convictions of Indigenous and other racialized people in Canada. During her final year of law school, Jessie represented the Indigenous Law Students Association on the Faculty of Law’s TRC Implementation Committee, worked as the Coordinator of PBSC’s brand-new Indigenous Human Rights Program, and volunteered as a researcher with the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society. Jessie is currently articling at the Office of the Children’s Lawyer.