04/14/2025
✨WHITNEY IGIDI, Ontario🇨🇦
“Whitney Igidi is an advocate, researcher and analyst specializing in gender justice, restorative legal reform and transitional justice in settler-colonial states.
Her research concerns the intersections between gender, law and structural violence. Notably, Whitney’s experiences include conducting primary research in Rwanda concerning survivors of sexual violence and their experiences during the post-conflict proceedings, investigating the disproportionate impact of property laws on Black and Indigenous women in Canada, and applying a gender-based analysis to the Ontario COVID-19 plan.
Her recent piece, “Voices Forgotten: The Need for Transitional Justice in Canada and the U.S” was published by the London Free Press as part of a guide to advocacy for the BLM movement. Whitney hopes to combine her knowledge of policy with a law degree to continue providing accessible legal education to marginalized communities.
Whitney holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Western University. She is currently completing a Master’s in International Affairs at the Norman Paterson School for International Affairs, where she acts as the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion student representative to the faculty committee.”
