A Voice For the Voiceless

MISSION

The Advocacy Project (AP) recruits students to help marginalized communities tell their story and claim their rights.

• Recent Posts

  • Corporate Privatization Leads to Hundreds of Wastepickers Losing their Jobs: The Struggle for a Dignified Livelihood Continues
  • New Video On E-waste Sheds Light on the Work of Wastepickers
  • URGENT MESSAGE TO CANADIANS
  • Public International B’law’g: Climate Justice in India
  • In Your Eyes

• RSS Feed

  • All Entries
  • All Comments
  • This Post's Comments

Leave a Reply

Click here to cancel reply.

Name (required)

Mail (will not be published) (required)

Website

Security Code:

Fellow: Jacqui Kotyk

Chintan in India

• 

  In 2007, Jacqui graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Environmental Science (First Class Honours) and a University Gold Medal as the highest achieving graduate in her faculty. While completing this degree, Jacqui worked in the University of Manitoba’s Environmental Conservation Lab assisting with research and advocacy around the social impacts of mad cow disease in Canadian rural communities, the ecological outcomes of prairies restoration, and local food distribution within Manitoba.
  
  In the fall of 2007, Jacqui began a Law degree at the University of British Columbia. Within her first year at UBC she was awarded the BLG Fellowship researching biodiversity contracting with global mining corporations, an emerging area of environmental law. She is Co-Chair of UBC’s Environmental Law Group and co-coordinator of the Public Interest Law Society. Read more...

  
  
  Jacqui’s Flickr Photos