Samantha Peters (she/her/hers) is a lawyer, educator and consultant with a focus on labour, employment and human rights law. Samantha completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, her graduate studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and is an alumna of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law with specializations in Public Law and Dispute Resolution and Professionalism.
Samantha completed her articles of clerkship in a bilingual capacity at a national union in Ottawa, Ontario. Following the completion of her articles, Samantha took a hiatus from the practice of law to engage in work at the intersection of law, education and policy, ranging from law reform initiatives to legal education to legislative research including as an Education and Social Policy Researcher at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Samantha is deeply committed to community and legal work related to racial justice, anti-violence and workers’ rights. In 2016, she co-created a one-year public legal education initiative funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario which put complex legislation into plain language, and began with Ontario’s carding regulations. Samantha’s writing on topics such as Ontario’s licensing process, judicial education, professional responsibility and access to justice has appeared in Huffington Post Canada, CBA/ABC’s National Magazine, the Ontario Bar Association’s JUST Magazine, NOW Toronto, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, ByBlacks, SLAW, Global News, and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. For the 2020-2021 academic year, Samantha has been appointed as the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law's inaugural
Black Legal Mentor-in-Residence / Mentor Juridique pour la Communauté Noire.
