Gloria Song is a Ph.D. candidate in law, studying access to justice for domestic violence issues under Dr. Angela Cameron and Dr. Jackie Dawson as part of the Change and Economic Development in Arctic Canada research team at the University of Ottawa. She leads international engagement at Polar Knowledge Canada (formerly the Canadian Polar Commission) working in research policy, as well as serving as a project coordinator for the Law Society of Nunavut. Gloria clerked at the Federal Court for the Honourable Mr. Justice Leonard Mandamin, and then practiced as a poverty lawyer for the Legal Services Board of Nunavut while based in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. She has worked on access to justice issues in domestic violence at the Legal Assistance Centre’s Gender Research and Advocacy Project in Windhoek, Namibia as part of the Canadian Bar Association’s Young Lawyers International Program. She continued researching these themes in Georgetown, Guyana as the 2016 Governance and Justice Research Award recipient through the International Development Research Centre. Gloria was the recipient of the Shirley Greenberg Scholarship in feminist law in 2018 and was awarded the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship at the doctoral level in 2019.
