About Our Students

Mohamed graduated from Queen’s University Faculty of Law in 2024. After summering with the firm, he has returned to article. Mohamed’s passion for social justice and labour law was shaped early in his academic career, beginning with his undergraduate studies in Sociology. During his time at University of Toronto Mississauga Campus, he worked extensively with Syrian refugees as part of the Refugee Integration Stress and Equity (RISE) team. This work earned him the University’s Excellence Award in Social Sciences and Humanities. Following his experience on RISE, Mohamed joined the Centre for Community Based Research as a researcher assessing refugee mental health programs on behalf of CAMH.

At Queen’s Law, Mohamed further honed his research skills and passion for advocacy as a project lead at the Conflict Analytics Lab, where he developed AI tools to assist workers in navigating their employment rights. His interest in labour and employment continued in other leadership positions such as his role as president of the Queen’s Labour and Employment Club and his role on Queen’s First-Generation Network. His commitment to worker empowerment and social justice has been a driving force throughout his academic and professional journey.

David graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2024. David entered law school with a passion for working with clients, promoting access to justice, and advancing the rights of vulnerable populations. In pursuit of these values, David became involved with the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, where he co-led the Police Oversight Student Working Group. This involved delivering public legal education about police complaints in Ontario and advocating for law reform to increase independent civilian oversight of federal law enforcement. While at U of T, David also worked as an externship student with the Law Reform department at the Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) and as a Senior Editor for the Journal of Law and Equality.

David was inspired to go pursue a career in law after working at Community Legal Information (CLI) in his hometown of Charlottetown, PE. At CLI, David managed Renting PEI, a project designed to support tenants experiencing legal issues related to housing. In addition to managing Renting PEI, David delivered general client service, helping low-income clients experiencing a variety of legal problems navigate the legal system and access justice. 

Prior to law school, David also received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Prince Edward Island.

Chloe graduated from the combined civil and common law program at McGill University with a B.C.L./J.D in 2024.

During law school, Chloe volunteered with the Montreal Workers’ Rights Legal Clinic to provide free legal information on employment, labour and human rights law to non-unionized workers in Quebec.  Her interests include disability rights, climate justice, and agricultural work. She co-authored an article for Harvard Law’s Bill of Health on disability inclusion in agroforestry and won the Joel Taller Prize for Emerging Voices in Food Law in 2022 for her research on market concentration in the food retail sector market and its impact on agricultural workers. Chloe is also interested in the impact of generative artificial intelligence technology on labour and human rights. She co-authored an article for Policy Options magazine on the gendered impacts of ‘deepfake’ intimate images and was recently invited to speak to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage regarding the increasing availability of this emerging technology.

Prior to law school, Chloe studied Cognitive Science at McGill University graduating in 2017 with First Class Honours. During her undergraduate studies, Chloe worked for several years in student politics where she developed her passion for advocacy and grew to recognize the importance of organizing to build collective power.

Samuel first developed an interest in labour advocacy through his work in the gig-economy. His firsthand experience of employee misclassification sparked a desire to support and advocate for others facing injustice in the workplace.

During his undergraduate studies, Samuel worked as a bike courier for Foodora, a food delivery service that classified its couriers as independent contractors. Despite Foodora's claims, Samuel found that his work closely resembled that of an employee. Alongside other couriers, he became involved in union organizing efforts with the support of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). Foodora challenged certification on the ground that couriers, as independent contractors, cannot unionize. Samuel served as a representative witness at the application for certification at the Ontario Labour Relations Board. The board found that Foodora couriers were dependent contractors, and the workers successfully formed Canada’s first gig-economy union.

Samuel graduated from the Lincoln Alexander School of Law in 2024. During law school, he volunteered with the Kensington-Bellwoods Community Legal Services’s tenancy advocacy program, where he provided legal information, compiled evidence, and prepared clients for hearings at the Landlord and Tenant Board. He also worked in the inaugural student placements at the Ontario Court of Justice, where he assisted judges in a wide range of legal work including research, drafting, and evidence review. Samuel participated in negotiation and mooting competitions throughout law school, including the LASL Cup and McCarthy Tétrault Cup.

Samuel received his undergraduate degree in Economics from Trent University in 2017, where he was awarded the Bruce Barrett Memorial Prize for academic achievement.

Anna is entering her final year of law school at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She is passionate about workers’ rights, health justice, and poverty law. Her interest in labour and employment law is informed by her personal experiences working in the service and silviculture industries, where she encountered unsafe work conditions.

Anna holds a Bachelor of Arts & Science from McGill University, where she studied cognitive neuroscience and economics. During her time in Montreal, she volunteered with older adults with disabilities, patients recovering from brain injuries, and people experiencing homelessness.

Before law school, Anna was a research coordinator for Neuroethics Canada at the University of British Columbia. Her work focused on the ethico-legal implications of emerging neurotechnologies from a patient-centered perspective. She led ethics and knowledge translation initiatives for an international project developing a novel treatment for spinal cord injury. Outside of her research, she facilitated creative writing classes for older adults with disabilities in Vancouver.

Anna was drawn to clinic work early in her studies. She volunteered as an intake worker at Kensington-Bellwoods Community Legal Services and later worked full-time as a legal caseworker at Downtown Legal Services in the Disability, Health, and Income Security Division. In this role, she advocated for low-income clients with disabilities on issues related to social assistance and human rights, and provided broad legal supports at a shelter in downtown Toronto. She also co-developed a legal manual on adult adoption, integrating a disability lens and drawing on diverse cultural understandings of adoption. 

Kabir is completing his J.D. at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Kabir comes to Cavalluzzo with a passion for advocacy and justice shaped by his upbringing in a working-class immigrant community. As a teenager, Kabir worked in the tourism and hospitality industry in his hometown of Vancouver B.C. where he witnessed the importance of workplace health and safety and legal protections for workers.

Kabir’s commitment to social justice and advocacy for workers and marginalized populations has carried forward through his academic journey. Kabir co-leads a working group at the International Human Rights Program at UofT law that supports legal advocacy for migrant workers. This working group is investigating avenues to hold governments accountable through transnational mechanisms for Canada’s widespread abuses of migrant and precarious labour. Kabir also supported Charter challenges advancing the rights of women, youth, and refugees while working with the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights. Additionally, Kabir advocates on behalf of law students at administrative, academic and Deans’ committees as an elected student representative.

During his time as a summer student at the Migrant Workers Centre of BC (MWC), Kabir supported legal advocacy and public legal education for domestic, agricultural, and temporary foreign workers. This work focused on enhancing access to justice for precarious workers and advancing policy reform in immigration and labour rights. While at the MWC, Kabir also made contributions to a forthcoming book on labour trafficking in Canada and worked alongside organizers in the field to reach remote populations of agricultural workers across BC.

Sakeina is entering her final year of the J.D. Program at Osgoode Hall Law School. She also holds an Honours Bachelor of Public Administration with a minor in Creative Writing from York University.

Sakeina’s past work as a journalist informs her desire to advocate for progressive causes through the law.  Sakeina reported on equity issues in the education system as a Journalism Fellow at The Local and as an Asian American Journalists’ Association Fellow in Washington D.C. She also contributed to a Toronto Star investigation on patient care in Ontario hospitals. Sakeina’s reporting also appears in The Globe and Mail, Vogue, The Walrus, and VICE, and she has received awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists and Amnesty International Canada.

While in law school, Sakeina has been a junior editor for the Journal of Law and Social Policy and a case worker in the criminal defence division of the Community & Legal Aid Services Program. Most recently, Sakeina spent eight months as a Workers’ Rights case worker at Parkdale Community Legal Services, where she worked with clients on employment matters including wrongful dismissals and human rights issues. Sakeina also served as a collective bargaining representative for OPSEU Local 5118, advocating alongside her fellow summer students.

Outside of work, Sakeina enjoys filing Freedom of Information requests, watching indie movies, and reading speculative fiction.