Staff
Darcie Bennett
Darcie is the coordinator of the Jane Doe Legal Network and the research coordinator for the child welfare reform campaign at Pivot Legal Society. She has a PhD in sociology from the University of British Columbia, as well as an extensive background working with community-based women's organizations on issues related to housing, income assistance, labour regulation, child care and the intersection of poverty and violence in women's lives. Darcie is also a mother of three.
Mary Childs
Mary Childs is a lawyer who has practiced both criminal and business law. She has law degrees from UBC and Oxford Universities, and spent a year working as law clerk to the BC Court of Appeal before qualifying as a lawyer. She has taught law at universities in both England and Canada, and is the co-editor (with Louise Ellison) of a book, Feminist Perspectives on Evidence. She has been a volunteer with Pivot Legal Society since 2002, and was a founding partner of Pivot Legal LLP.
Carrie Humchitt
Carrie practices in the areas of family law, criminal law, and also deals with residential school claims under the Independent Assessment Process (IAP) and child apprehension matters. In addition to her work with the Jane Doe Legal Network Carrie is an associate with the Pivot LLP. Carrie is also a member of the Aboriginal Women's Action Network (AWAN) and is very committed to addressing the issues impacting Aboriginal women who have experienced violence and advocates for the rights of Canada's Aboriginal peoples.
Carrie worked and also completed a temporary articling position at the UBC First Nations Legal Clinic in the downtown Eastside of Vancouver during her time at UBC Law School.
Carrie completed her undergraduate degree at Simon Fraser University's School of Criminology in 2000 in which she graduated with honours and went onto to work at the Vancouver Aboriginal Transformative Justice Services (VATJS) which was a restorative justice program for Aboriginal peoples in Vancouver and worked there until 2002 before going onto complete her law degree at UBC and she graduated there in 2005. After completing her articling positions she practiced in Victoria and Nanaimo primarily in the areas of family and criminal law before returning to Vancouver to work at Pivot in September of 2009. Carrie is committed to being a part of a social justice movement towards advocating for the legal rights of the marginalized people in society.
In her spare time Carrie can be seen cheering for her favourite sporting events, football and hockey, and also attends various social justice oriented events.
Katrina Pacey
Katrina is a staff lawyer with Pivot Legal Society and one of the founding partners of Pivot Legal LLP. She practices criminal, prison, mental health and human rights law. Katrina received her law degree and a Master of Arts in Women's Studies from the University of British Columbia. She was called to the bar in British Columbia in 2005. While in law school, Katrina founded the UBC Law Students' Social Justice Action Network and was active in the Downtown Eastside as a board member and campaigner with Pivot Legal Society. In 2003, she received a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in recognition of her commitment to social justice. Over the years, Katrina has worked for a number of anti-violence organizations, including the BC Institute Against Family Violence and Safeteen: A Powerful Alternative to Violence. Katrina has been involved in many Pivot campaigns and is co-author of three reports, Voices for Dignity: A Call to End the Harms Cause by Canada's Sex Trade Laws, Beyond Decriminalization: Sex Work, Human Rights and a New Framework for Law Reform, and To Serve and Protect: A Report on Policing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Lobat Sadrehashemi
Lobat is a lawyer who shares her time equally between serving individual clients in immigration and refugee law at Pivot Legal LLP and providing systemic legal advocacy, summary advice, and education for Pivot Legal Society's campaigns on child welfare reform and violence against women (the Jane Doe Legal Network). Lobat received her law degree, as well as her Master of Social Work degree from the University of Toronto in 2005 and was called to the bar in BC in 2006.
Patricia Weber
Patricia is an articled student at Pivot Legal and Pivot Legal Society. Patricia is the first contact for advocates or persons calling the network. She summered at Upper Skeena Counselling and Legal Assistance, in Hazelton BC. Patricia received her law degree from the University of Victoria and was a proud member of the UVic Association for Women and the Law.