Roslyn Chambers

About Roslyn

Roslyn Chambers is an Afro-Indigenous lawyer, born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who relocated to Vancouver, BC in 1990 after living internationally. She earned her Juris Doctor from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University and an undergraduate degree in Psychology, also from Dalhousie University. She also holds Certified Records Manager and Certified Document Imaging Architect designations, which she has applied to Indigenous treaty preparation and cultural archiving. Before practising law she ran several businesses, including an information management consulting firm, a restaurant, and residential property management. Her legal work focuses on the rights of disadvantaged individuals, including tenants, students, seniors, employees, artists, small businesses, and new immigrants, as well as administrative and poverty law issues. She is active in community initiatives such as Access Pro Bono, a Child Protection Parents Group, and the Lawyer Referral Service, and she established the annual Weldon High School Debate to support Black and Indigenous youth. She received the Schulich Scholarship for Community Service, the Dalhousie University Student Activist Award, and the Faculty of Law Leadership Award. She belongs to the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, the Indigenous Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association, the Law Union of British Columbia, the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, the New Westminster Bar Association, the Vancouver Bar Association, the Alternate Dispute Resolution Institute of Canada, and Mediate BC.

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Education & credentials

Law school

Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University

Undergraduate

Dalhousie University, Psychology