About Jess

I’ve always been driven to understand how people can best work, govern, and do business together. Throughout my career, I have tried to work toward a fairer, more accessible legal system, and to find ways to improve my clients’ experience within that system.

In my first 20 years as a lawyer, I advised and represented clients in a wide range of cases involving issues of human rights, labour relations, procedural fairness, and workplace safety. Since 2024, I have specialized exclusively in two practice areas I have found especially rewarding: workplace investigations and dispute resolution.

I particularly enjoy working in educational settings and in unionized public sector workplaces. I offer my clients a sophisticated suite of services that’s uniquely informed by my dispute resolution skill set and my knowledge of how unions, employers and individuals experience conflict. I also currently serve as the Ethics Commissioner for the HEU, a union that represents tens of thousands of healthcare workers across BC.

I’ve always tried to “pay it forward” by providing pro bono legal services, most recently through the PBSC Human Rights Project. And from 2021 to 2025 I was privileged to serve with the Board of Directors of CIWA, a major non-profit that offers innovative job training, language and childcare programs for immigrant women across Canada.

When I’m not helping my clients to build safer and healthier workplaces, I can be found exploring BC’s beaches, rivers and mountains, playing music, and making crafts and inventions with my hilariously creative daughter.