#16Days Speaker Session- Pamela Cross
Join special guest, Pamela Cross for a session on Making a Safe Community by Addressing Gender-Based Violence on November 30, 7:00-10:00pm at the Boardmore Theatre.聽
About the Speaker
Pamela Cross is a feminist lawyer; a well-known and respected expert on violence against women and the law. She works as a researcher, writer, educator and trainer with women鈥檚 equality and violence against women organizations across Canada.
She is the Advocacy Director at in Durham Region, where she leads the organization鈥檚 law and policy reform efforts and media work at the provincial and national levels. In March 2023, Pamela was appointed to a two-year term with Ontario’s Domestic Violence Death Review Committee, which reviews all domestic homicide deaths to identify risk factors and propose recommendations for systemic change.
In 2022, Pamela participated in the Inquest into 2015 triple femicide of Carol Culleton, Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie Warmerdam in Renfrew County, Ontario, both as an expert witness in her role as Luke鈥檚 Place Legal Director and as an producing a report for the Inquest on behalf of the 福利免费在线看. Following the Inquest, Pamela was commissioned by End Violence Against Women Renfrew County to develop a toolkit about 福利免费在线看 engagement with inquests, 鈥淲e Remember鈥�.
Pamela also participated in the as an expert witness on intimate partner violence.
Pamela is an author on the Luke鈥檚 Place toolkit, 鈥溾�� (2021) and 鈥溾�� (2018, 2021). With funding from the federal Department of Justice, she led a team that conducted research into the use of family violence screening tools for family law practitioners. The final report, entitled 鈥溾�� (2018), includes a draft screening tool.
As a member of the teaching faculty with the , she trained criminal and family court judges on managing domestic violence cases, and, in 2012, she developed violence against women curriculum for law schools in a project with the .
For the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Pamela co-authored 鈥溾�� and was the author of 鈥溾�� She also delivered workshops on family law to CCMW members.
In her previous role as Luke鈥檚 Place Legal Director, Pamela was the lead trainer for Ontario鈥檚 Family Court Support Workers, providing both in-person and online training and support for approximately 100 frontline workers who assist abused women in family court. She led the development and delivery of domestic violence awareness training to approximately 2,500 Legal Aid Ontario staff, 福利免费在线看 clinics and lawyers across the province. She was also Co-Chair of the Violence Against Women Roundtable, which provided guidance to the provincial government on this issue.
Pamela is the 2020 recipient of the from Queen鈥檚 Law, the 2019 recipient of both the from the Law Society of Ontario and the from the Law Foundation of Ontario, and a 2015 recipient of the . In 2006, she was a for her work in the area of law reform.
She is a frequent at provincial, national and international conferences and is a regular commentator on violence against women and the law for print media, radio and television across Canada.