Leora Smith
Leora Smith is a lawyer and writer living in Toronto. She has written about policing and housing for publications including ProPublica, the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, the CBC and the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Leora’s legal work has focused on human rights, corporate accountability, eviction defense, and advancing the rights of people with criminal histories and their families. She has acted on behalf of people facing employment and housing discrimination and discrimination by police and prison workers in Canada and the United States, and alongside advocates around the world defending and advancing the rights of women, workers, poor people and people who are incarcerated or threatened with incarceration. Leora is a graduate of Harvard Law School and articled with the Human Rights Legal Support Centre.
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