Emma Andrews, LL.B.

Emma is fluent in Spanish and English. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws Degree at the University of Victoria, B.C., and studied civil law at the Autonomous National University of Honduras. She was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 2000.

Emma has successfully appealed cases in the Federal Court of Canada. One of her successful appeals was selected to be aired on the Fifth Estate, an award winning CBC investigative television program.

She is participating in a special project providing assistance to international students at Capilano College. In addition, Emma was named by the Dominion Institute as a participant in Passages to Canada, the Citizenship and Immigration feature of the Memory Project.

The Vancouver Sun newspaper selected Emma as one of the six most successful immigrants in British Columbia.

Emma has a broad range of work experience and community involvement including:

• MOSAIC:
  Legal Clinic
  Social Counselor for Spanish Community
  
  
• University of Victoria:
  Legal Information Clinic
  Dean's Advisory Committee on Ethnicity and Culture
  
  
• Save the Children Foundation
  
• Legal Services Society of BC
  
• Vancouver Refugee Council
  
• Inland Refugee Society
  
• Latin American Community Council

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