Announcement: Professor Jennifer Bond is the 2016 Tarnopolsky Award Winner

ICJ Canada is thrilled to announce Professor Jennifer Bond as the winner of the 2016 Tarnopolsky Award. Jennifer Bond is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa; Special Advisor to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship; Founder and Faculty Director of the University of Ottawa Refugee Hub; and Co-founder and Co-director of the University of Ottawa Refugee Assistance Project. She also helped to create the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program (“SSP”), which has mobilized over 1,300 pro-bono lawyers to assist Canadians across the country seeking to privately sponsor refugees. She has published extensively, is a frequent media commentator, has given numerous presentations at national and international events, and has contributed to litigation, including by appearing in interventions in important refugee cases at the Supreme Court of Canada. She holds a BA and BCom from the University of Calgary, an LLB from the University of Victoria, and an LLM from Yale Law School.

Her nomination was supported by several colleagues who noted Jennifer’s truly outstanding dedication to refugees over the past decade. She has demonstrated exceptional leadership, advocacy, and community building in the face of the migrant crisis, and been a great source of inspiration to many people through her work.

The 2016 Tarnopolsky award was to go to a candidate not yet at the midpoint of his or her career. With her remarkable achievements to date, Jennifer is a highly deserving candidate. We wish her continued success.

Jennifer will be formally given the award at a special event this autumn. Details will be announced at a later date.