📋 Tender Overview
The new members will carry out the commissions mandate of fostering equality and reducing discrimination. It does this through public education and community initiatives by resolving and settling discrimination complaints and through the human rights tribunal.Congratulations to the five new tribunal members who were appointed to the Alberta Human Rights Commission. I am confident their diverse backgrounds and knowledge will help the commission protect the most important and sacred rights of Albertans as equal persons.Called to the bar in 2014 Faraz Bawa is now the senior associate at Stewart Sharma Harsanyi Law Firm primarily practicing immigration and family law. He provides regular counsel to all four divisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board the Federal Court of Canada the Provincial Court of Alberta and the Court of Queens Bench in Alberta.Samuel CrowfootSamuel Crowfoot is a councillor and the chairperson for the Siksika Nation where he is a member of the lead negotiating team concerning the 1910 Land Claim Surrender. He has served as the chief judge and program director for the Pueblo of Zuni Tribal Court in Zuni New Mexico and as an associate attorney for Rosette LLP in Chandler Arizona.Jessica Gill is a legal counsel with the Canada Energy Regulator in Calgary. She has provided legal advice on labour and employment human rights privacy and administrative law matters to provincial and federally regulated employers for more than six years. Prior to her current role Gill was an associate lawyer with Dentons Canada LLP.
