Kira Berkeley
Co-Director and Counsel
AEL Advocacy
Kira Berkeley is the Co-Director and Counsel at Animal Environmental Legal Advocacy (AEL Advocacy), as well as the Advocacy Manager at Animal Alliance of Canada. She graduated from the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law in 2020. During her studies, Kira acted as the Vice President of  the University of Ottawa’s Animal Justice Association and interned in various animal law at organizations including Animal Justice, Breder Law (Vancouver), and Gartner & Associates Animal Law (Toronto). Kira previously held the position of Animal Law Research Associate at the University of Toronto, where she assisted in launching Canada's first Animal Law Program at the Henry N.R. Jackman Faculty of Law.
Session: Legal Tools for Animal Protection: Transparency, Municipal Action, and Species-at-Risk Law
