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Established in 1987, the OBA Foundation is the charitable arm of the Ontario Bar Association. The OBA Foundation promotes public legal education and advances innovative research with the goal of improving the justice system.

Ongoing work includes funding projects that promote legal education and access to justice in marginalized communities, such as San Romanoway Revitalization Association-sponsored programs; high school trial moots across the province; and fellowships in law and ethics.

The activities of the OBA Foundation are governed by its Trustees, a group of dedicated lawyers from across the Province.

Name	Position	Contact
Steven F. Rosenhek	Chair	Steven Rosenhek Professional Corporation North York Email
Ronke Akinyemi	Trustee	Torys LLP Toronto Email
Maia Bent	Trustee	Lerners LLP London Email
C. Katie Black	Trustee	Black & Associates Ottawa Email
Lia Joyce Bruschetta	Trustee	Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Toronto Email
Antoine L Collins	Trustee	Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada Member Ottawa Email
Daniel del Gobbo	Trustee
Christopher Di Matteo	Trustee	Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Toronto Email
Andrei Dobrogeanu	Trustee	Ross & McBride LLP Hamilton Email
Mihad Fahmy	Trustee	Fahmy Law Workplace Lawyer and Investigator London Email
Evon J. Gayle	Trustee	Miller Thomson LLP Waterloo Email
Jeremy Glick	Trustee	Ministry of Attorney General Toronto Email
James Douglas Grenkie, K.C., LSM	Trustee	Gorrell Grenkie & Remillard Morrisburg Email
Karen Hagman	Trustee	MayLex Litigation Professional Corporation Lawyer Thunder Bay Email
Sojourner Onika King	Trustee	Sojourner King Law Professional Corporation Lawyer Etobicoke Email
Amanda Nichola Lawson	Trustee	Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP Ottawa Email
Solomon McKenzie	Trustee	McCarthy Tétrault LLP Associate
Sylvia M. Samuel	Trustee
Mohsen Seddigh	Trustee	Sotos LLP Email
Charlene D. Theodore	Trustee	Principal & Founder

The OBA Foundation is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion as essential elements of the justice system. We believe the justice system is strongest when it embraces and reflects all individuals it serves. Accordingly, the Foundation’s priority is to support and fund equity, diversity and inclusion initiatives and projects within the justice system, including within the legal profession. The Foundation encourages applications by organizations and individuals who serve historically-excluded, equity-seeking groups identified by race, ancestry, place of origin, skin colour, ethnicity, faith, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender or gender expression, age, marital status, family status or disability.

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