LESLIE Brunanski — LLB/JD, MA Candidate — Leslie respectfully acknowledges that she studies, lives and works on Unceded Coast Salish Territory: the ancestral and traditional territories of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, Squamish, Tsawwassen and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

Prior to law school, Leslie earned a Bachelor of General Studies from Simon Fraser University with joint minors in Women’s Studies and Sociology and with additional emphases on both Criminology and Psychology. After earning a Juris Doctor from UBC Law School in 2003, Leslie practiced law in Vancouver as a criminal defence lawyer and then as a corporate litigator with Ellis Business Lawyers until her decision to return to academia in 2016.

Leslie is currently in the Master’s program at SFU in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.