Susannah is responsible for working collaboratively with all members of the firm’s leadership team to recommend, develop, and implement initiatives, practices, and programs that will advance the firm’s IDEA strategy and action plan while aligning with the firm’s values.

Prior to joining the firm, Susannah served as the Law Society of Alberta’s first Equity, Diversity and Inclusion counsel in its 116-year history and the first known Black Equity Ombudsperson. In these roles, she applied an EDI lens to various projects and worked to create a more inclusive legal profession, supporting individuals facing discrimination or harassment in the workplace. An experienced panelist, guest lecturer and facilitator, Susannah frequently speaks on a variety of IDEA issues including allyship, anti-racism, intentional inclusivity, and centering equity in the workplace. With a core belief that legal service providers should reflect the communities they serve, she brings her passion for finding common ground and executing innovative ideas to her work, every day.

Susannah is also the founding and former President of the first Alberta Chapter of the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers. She has co-chaired and sat on several Canadian Bar Association committees, and has volunteered with the Women in Law Leadership and the Association of Women Lawyers Calgary. Additionally, she is a mentor with the Black Law Students’ Association Mentorship Program at the University of Calgary and a member of the law school’s Black Student Equitable Admissions Process Sub-Committee.

In 2023, Susannah was recognized as one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 in Avenue Magazine and one of the Black People Making History in Calgary by the Calgary Region Immigrant Employment Council. In 2022, she received the Tomorrow’s Leader Award from Women in Law Leadership Alberta.

Susannah obtained her JD from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2013, where she was actively involved in the student and local community, serving as the Black Law Students’ Association’s Academic Advisor and receiving the Legal & Literary Society Student Honour Award. Following law school, after being called to the Ontario and Alberta Bars in 2014, she practiced exclusively in family law as a litigator in Calgary until 2021.