Avvy Go is the Clinic Director of the Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic. She received her B.A. in economics and management studies from the University of Waterloo, LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and LL.M. from Osgoode Hall Law School. Immigration, human rights, and employment law are some of the main areas of law that she practices in. She also served on the Law Society of Ontario’s Access to Justice Committee, the Equity and Aboriginal Issues Committee and the Human Rights Monitoring Group.
Apart from her legal practice, Avvy spends much time doing community organizing and advocacy work. In 2007, she co-founded the Colour of Poverty Campaign, a campaign to address the increasing racialization of poverty in Ontario. She continues to serve as a steering committee member of Colour of Poverty - Colour of Change.
Avvy has received the following awards: Urban Alliance on Race Relations Justice Award (2020), OCASI Life Time Achievement Award (2018), Senate of Canada 150 medal (2017), SOAR Medal (2017), Order of Ontario (2014), the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers’ Lawyer of Distinction Award (2012), City of Toronto’s William P. Hubbard Award for Race Relations (2008) and President's Award of the Women's Law Association of Ontario (2002)
Anti-Asian racism has long existed in Canada, before the COVID 19 pandemic hit. This webinar will explore the historical roots of Anti-Asian racism as well as its contemporary manifestation, and discuss the need to tackle Anti-Asian racism as part of the broader strategy to advance racial equity and racial justice for all racialized groups in Canada.
EDI Series Part 3 Seminar Link
