Biography

Shalini Konanur is the Executive Director and senior lawyer at the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario.  She graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1998 and was called to the Bar in Ontario in 2000.  Shalini has spent her entire legal career in Ontario’s legal aid clinic system, practicing in rural and urban settings with diverse populations.  She practices in a number of areas of law including immigration, family, human rights, employment, income maintenance, housing, and gender-based violence.  Shalini has appeared at all levels of court up to the Supreme Court of Canada and has provided expert advice related to racism, discrimination, and gender-based violence to multiple levels of governments, to civil society organizations, the private sector, and internationally at the United Nations.