Our Legal Team

Yolanda articled with Stevenson Whelton LLP in 2017 and joined the firm as an associate in 2019. She maintains a broad civil litigation practice that includes commercial and contractual disputes, medical malpractice litigation, and general administrative and constitutional litigation. Yolanda’s practice also includes civil litigation against police and prisons for rights abuses.

Yolanda graduated from the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, where she previously served as a case worker at the employment division of Downtown Legal Services. Her past experience includes working as a research associate at the University of Toronto’s International Human Rights Program, where she co-wrote a report on immigration detention and appeared as co-counsel in the IHRP’s intervention at the Supreme Court of Canada in Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Gize Yebeyo Araya. She recently co-authored a report on the human rights and constitutional implications of algorithmic policing technologies in Canada.