Dana-Kaye Matthews

Bio

Dana-Kaye is entering her final year at McGill University’s Faculty of Law. Her interest in institutionalized oppression, gained during her undergraduate degree in Public Administration and Political Science at the University of Ottawa, has helped her apply a critical lens to her legal education. Currently, she has the distinct honour of serving as the first Editor-in-Chief of the newly established Black (Canadian) Legal Journal.

She has been busy while at law school. She volunteers as a student clerk at the Tribunal Administratif du Québec and competed in the Julius Alexander Isaac Moot. Her legal research focuses on the adaptation of critical race theory and intersectional theories to render the Canadian discrimination law regime more supple and responsive.

In her free time, Dana-Kaye likes musical theatre, video essays about pop culture phenomena, and creative writing. This summer, she will be teaching herself to roller-skate.