Civic hacknight #154 with Michelle Bain: Legal Aid Ontario

Presenter: Michelle Bain, Lawyer at Legal Aid Ontario

Michelle will be presenting on her experience as a Black female social justice lawyer and the barriers that she's encountered assisting some of her most vulnerable clients. She's be focusing on poverty, Child Welfare Youth and the Youth Criminal Justice system.

*** SOCIAL MEDIA CHEAT CODES:

@LegalAidOntario #juvenilejustice #JJreform #youthjustice

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To be announced

*** THIS MONTH'S VENUE SPONSOR:

Sidewalk Labs

https://sidewalktoronto.ca/

Sidewalk Labs is an Alphabet company that imagines, designs, tests, and builds urban innovations to help cities meet their biggest challenges. They are designing a district in Toronto’s Eastern Waterfront to tackle the challenges of urban growth, working in partnership with the tri-government agency Waterfront Toronto and the local community. This joint effort, called Sidewalk Toronto, aims to make Toronto the global hub for urban innovation.

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*** ABOUT US:

Our weekly civic tech hacknights bring together designers, coders, urban planners, government staff, mappers, policy-makers, students, communications strategists, and all other Torontonians who share an interest in making Toronto more responsive, prosperous, sustainable and equitable, through design, tech, and data. (Coders are welcome, but you don’t have to be a coder to contribute!) Come and be part of it!

Agenda:

6:30-7: Welcome and intros
7-7:30: Presentation and Q&A/discussion
7:30-9: Breakout groups (make something!)

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Hope to see you Tuesday!