Ms. St. Lewis is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. She currently teaches tort law and introduction to race theory. She has also taught courses in civil liberties, history of legal thought and criminal justice administration. She was the co-chair of the Canadian Bar Association Working Group on Racial Equality and author of Virtual Justice: Systemic Racism and the Canadian Legal Profession.
A bilingual lawyer, she has extensive experience in the equality rights area. She conducts research and consults with government, corporations and community organizations in the area of equality rights with a particular emphasis on legal culture, critical race theory and feminist legal theory. She also conducts training on anti-racist decision-making and practice with judges, other members of the administration of justice, private sector management and the human services sector.
Professor St. Lewis was the founding Director of the Education Equity Programme of the Law Faculty at the University of Ottawa. She has held positions with the Ontario Human Rights Commission and the Ontario Race Relations Directorate. She was also the Executive Director of the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). From 1985 to 1987 she was Special Assistant Government Affairs to the Grand Chief of the Crees of Quebec and was involved in the negotiations of the 1986 La Grande Agreement.
