After summering and articling at a seven-sister firm, Adrienne Jarabek was called to the Ontario Bar in 2012. Before joining the Centre for Labour and Employment Law with the Department of Justice Canada in 2020, she worked as legal counsel at the Canadian Human Rights Commission and as an analyst helping to establish the national human rights unit at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Since 2023, she is also a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law teaching a third-year class on negotiation. Her main practice areas include federal human rights law, employment law, the federal whistleblower regime, administrative law, and working on litigation files. Specializing in human rights, she received her Master of Laws in 2021.

Adrienne is the founder of the federal Security and Intelligence Human Rights Council and a former president of the Canadian Council on International Law. She sits on the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers Executive Committee on Human Rights, and also actively participates within Justice on diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Prior to law school, Adrienne had a career in international development and politics. In sub-Saharan Africa she worked as a Marketing & Business Development Officer for the micro-finance Foundation for International Community Assistance and Niagara College Institute funded by Global Affairs Canada (as it is now known). She also worked as the Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister of Canada and as a Correspondence Officer in the Office of the Clerk of the Privy Council.

In her spare time, Adrienne is a gardening enthusiast, rides a motorcycle, and enjoys backcountry camping.