International Women's Day celebrated at The Grand
Business and Professional Women Hastings Prince Edward, in partnership with the United Nations Association in Canada Quinte Branch, held a celebration in honour of International Women’s Day.
The guest speaker for the night was Michele Leering, Executive Director and Lawyer at the Community Advocacy and Legal Center, and member of theMichele Leering addresses the crowd of 200 community members at The Grand on International Women’s Day. “Receiving this award came as a complete surprise to me, I thought the phone call I received in the midst of the pandemic was a crank call or some kind of scam. I thought they had the wrong person,” said Leering. “Once I got over the shock, and learned more about the Order of Canada my first reaction was to think of all the people, particularly women, who deserved this award far more than I ever could.
“Not every lawyer gets to do work that’s so closely aligned with their values, or gets to experiment with creative and innovative approaches to working in community, seeking to work on intractable societal problems from the motivation of justice rather than charity,” said Leering
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