Debjani Poddar

Debjani Poddar is completing her third year of law school at the University of Ottawa, following the completion of an Honours Bachelor of Arts and Science at McMaster University as a recipient of the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation’s Loran Award. She has worked as an intern for the Canadian Centre for International Justice in 2006 and 2011 and completed a Directed Research Project on the treatment of charges for sexual violence in international criminal law. In 2012, she worked for the Law Commission of Ontario as a student researcher in family law and capacity and guardianship law. She is currently an intern with the International Criminal Court Legal Tools Project and a bilingual student caseworker in immigration and refugee law at Community Legal Services in Ottawa.