Afifa Hashimi (she/her) is an associate lawyer at Moore Edgar Lyster LLP practising labour, human rights, employment, and administrative law.

She holds a law degree from the University of Victoria and a B.A. (Honours) in Political Science from Simon Fraser University. Afifa is passionate about human rights and advocating on behalf of workers and unions. Afifa has engaged in advocacy, public legal education, research, and writing through several public interest organizations, with a focus on human rights, and racial and gender justice. She is the recipient of the Canadian Bar Association’s 2024 Douglas Miller Rising Star Award.

Afifa is currently an Officer of the Canadian Bar Association’s national Constitutional and Human Rights Law Section. She has also served as a chair of the Human Rights Law Section of CBABC, vice-chair of the South Asian Legal Clinic of B.C. (SALCBC), and a director and a vice-president of the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (British Columbia) Society (FACL BC). She is an associate producer of FACL BC’s 2021 documentary about discrimination.