Our Leadership Team

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Josh joined the Foundation in 2019.  As Executive Director, Josh is responsible for the leadership and administration of the Law Foundation of BC according to the strategic direction and governance standards approved by the Board of Governors.

From 2013 to 2019, he was Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. At BCCLA, Josh led legal challenges and law reform work which created substantial change in Canadian law. In 2020, he was a joint winner of the inaugural Hillman Canada Prize for Democracy and Social Justice for his work advancing human rights.

Josh’s legal practice has included constitutional law, First Nations law, labour and human rights law, and environmental law, working at a number of different legal organizations and a litigation firm. He has served on a number of government advisory bodies, including BC’s Advisory Committee on Provincial Policing Standards, the BC Police Academy Curriculum Evaluation Steering Committee, and the National Energy Board’s Land Matters Group.  Josh taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia for six years. Josh holds law and master’s degrees from the University of Toronto, and clerked at Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice.

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Andrea joined the Foundation in 2020 and has focused on leading people and culture, operations infrastructure, organizational development, and governance processes. Before that, she was Director of People and Operations at Ecojustice, where she led the changes needed for the organization to grow nationally. She managed organizational re-design, built the people and culture team, introduced performance management programs, and improved systems for greater efficiency and impact. Andrea has experience in non-profit, public and private sectors, and she has also served as Board Chair of Food Stash Foundation. She holds an MBA from the Sauder School of Business, and a BA in Psychology, Health and Society from the University of British Columbia. She is also a Chartered Professional in Human Resources (CPHR).

Andrea loves spending time outdoors with her toddler, partner and dog.

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Kim joined the foundation in 2024 as Director of Legal Service Grants. Prior to working at the Foundation, she was the first Executive Director of Rise Women’s Legal Centre, a non-profit legal clinic providing free family law services to women and gender diverse people.

Kim brings many years of experience in the non-profit sector and across a wide range of areas of law. She has practiced criminal, family and child protection law as a staff lawyer at legal aid in Yukon, including regularly travelling for court circuits in small communities. She engaged in strategic litigation and systemic advocacy on human rights, poverty and environmental issues with the Legal Resource Centre in South Africa and worked as an investigator at the Yukon Human Rights Commission. She has previously served on the boards of the Yukon Women’s Transition Home Society, Yukon Public Legal Education Association, Nakai Theatre, and currently sits on the board of Paws for Hope Animal Foundation. Kim clerked for the Territorial and Supreme Court of Yukon and holds a JD in law from the University of Victoria and a Master’s in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.

Kim loves spending time outdoors with her husband and rescue pup and is deeply grateful to live on the ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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Sarah joined the Foundation in 2025. As General Counsel, she provides legal advice to the Foundation and is the Foundation’s Privacy Officer.

Sarah has many years of experience working in social justice law. Prior to joining the Foundation, Sarah was General Counsel to BC’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner, where she helped set up the office and establish the legal team. She was lead counsel on public inquiries into systemic discrimination in policing, and into the rise of hate during the pandemic. She represented the Commissioner in various interventions in human rights cases before courts and the BC Human Rights Tribunal.

Sarah has also worked as counsel to a utilities regulation tribunal, as Acting Executive Director of Seniors First BC, and in private practice. She spent many years as a staff lawyer with a public interest law firm where she litigated cases involving access to legal aid, rights for low-wage and marginalized workers and low-income tenants, eligibility for income assistance and disability benefits, and access to affordable residential energy rates. Sarah has delivered workshops at the Foundation’s Provincial Training Conference on a wide variety of topics. She has sat on several boards, including for West Coast Environmental Law and Spectrum Society for Community Living. Sarah received her law degree from the University of Victoria.

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Pat joined the Foundation in 2021 and leads the Foundation’s Finance team as the Foundation delivers on its strategic plan. Pat worked in PwC’s assurance practice from 2010 to 2016 and has since worked in financial and operational roles at companies and nonprofits. He has experience in organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries, from small charities to multinational corporations, and enjoys delivering best-practice solutions tailored to the unique needs of individual organizations. Pat approaches his work from the lens of its impacts on the organization’s clients, team, and culture, always aiming to unlock creativity, compassion, and value.

Pat is passionate about access to justice and mental health and has previously served on the boards of the John Howard Society of the Fraser Valley and the Canadian Mental Health Association, Vancouver-Burnaby branch. He is also passionate about youth sports and is a volunteer coach and director at Cowichan Valley Minor Hockey Association.

Pat became a CPA, CA in 2013. He attended the Diploma in Accounting Program at UBC’s Sauder School of Business and holds a BCom, majoring in Finance, from the University of Alberta.

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Vi joined the foundation in 2022 as Director of Grants and Programs. Most recently, she was the National Manager of Public Outreach and Strategic Stakeholder Engagement at the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat, which leads the federal government’s efforts to identify systemic racial barriers and gaps and consider the impacts of new and existing policies and programs on racialized, Indigenous and religious minority communities.

Vi’s experience in the philanthropic sector includes 13 years at Vancouver Foundation, including almost a decade leading a team as Director of Grants and Community Initiatives, responsible for grantmaking through a range of issue areas and leading efforts to shift towards racial equity grantmaking with the launch of the first community investment stream committed to funding Black, Indigenous and racialized leadership and grassroots movements. She has worked as a frontline youth worker for large multi-service social agencies and served on the board of directors for Vancouver Coastal Health.

Vi holds an MA from the School of Child and Youth Care Studies at the University of Victoria. She is one half of a parenting duo to two young, growing, inquisitive and pretty rad, little humans.

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Bernice initially joined the Foundation in 2024 in an interim role. She now leads external communications, growing awareness and highlighting the impact of the Foundation’s funding work. Her first paid communications job was at Modo, Vancouver’s original carshare, where she led the co-op’s rebrand and revitalization within communities as their first Marketing Director.

Bernice was born and raised in the unceded, ancestral, and shared territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. She is the third daughter of Chinese immigrants from Hong Kong, and her Chinese name is 加梨 (ga lei), the Canadian Peartree. Living on the North Shore, Bernice enjoys spending time with her family, painting, sound and vibrational energy healing, and her asana practice. She also serves as a volunteer Director on the Board of Modo. She recently started playing mahjong again and hopes to make it to North wind one day #iykyk. She excels at Skribblio and second-guessing directions on a GPS.

Bernice holds an MBA from UBC’s Sauder School of Business, specializing in Sustainability and Strategy.

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Since completing her PhD in sociology at UBC in 2008, Darcie has worked at the intersection of non-profit management, legal advocacy, and social science research. Darcie joined Pivot Legal Society as a community-based researcher in 2006 and went on to hold several positions, including campaigns director and interim executive director. She also spent two years as director of marketing and communications for Ecojustice Canada. Darcie also worked as a community grants manager with the Community Action Initiative, where she managed the community-based counselling fund. In 2018, she completed a graduate certificate in executive coaching from Royal Roads University and specializes in coaching non-profit leaders.

Darcie is mom to three young people and caretaker to two cats.