About Jess

I grew up in a community-minded and values-driven family, and 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 with that system.

In my first 20 years as a lawyer I advised and represented clients on a wide range of complex cases, with a focus on issues of human rights, procedural fairness, and workplace safety. And since 2024, I have specialized exclusively in the two practice areas I have found most 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’ve always tried to “pay it forward” by providing pro bono legal services, including through Access Pro Bono, the Amici Curiae Friends of Court, and the PBSC Human Rights Project. From 2021 to 2025 I was also privileged to serve with the Board of Directors of CIWA, a major non-profit that offers a wide range of 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.