Daniella Marchand

BA (2017)

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Law Student

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Bio: Daniella Marchand attended the University of Alberta from 2013-2017. She graduated with distinction with a degree in Political Science and Women and Gender Studies. She began studying law at the University of Calgary in 2018. Since entering law school, she has worked hard to ensure that volunteering and community building remains a central part of her life. Her decision to come to law school, and the volunteer work she has chosen to undertake during her time there, has been influenced directly from her WGS degree. She is currently a Project Leader with the U of C's Probono Chapter working on the Emergency Protection Order Project, and in spring of 2019, was elected as Chair of the Calgary Women Studying Law Association (CWSLA). Next year, the CWSLA will be the host of the 2020 Law Needs Feminism Because forum, focusing on a theme of 'Innovative Intersectionality'. The forum will focus on how by overlapping diversified ways of thinking, varied experiences, and multiple knowledges, we can work to create new understandings in law, and better solutions to the problems we see surfacing in the Canadian legal sector.

Last summer, Daniella interned with the United Nation's Development Programme in Vietnam, a position that exposed her to the work being done in international biodiversity and climate change policy. Going forward Daniella hopes to continue on a career path focussed on public interest, or to find a job where she can continue working alongside communities, perhaps in policy-creation.