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Carey Majid, KC, is the Executive Director of the Newfoundland and Labrador Human Rights Commission. The Human Rights Commission is an independent, at-arm’s length government agency that is responsible for promoting and protecting human rights in the province. Carey founded the Community Justice Connect (CJC) program and through her leadership is redesigning the human rights complaint process and the redevelopment of CJC’s restorative justice process.
Carey is a lawyer with over 20 years of experience. She practises exclusively in the area of human rights and administrative law. She was elected a bencher of the Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2021 and appointed King’s Counsel in 2022. Carey is chair of the Law Society’s Equity and Diversity Committee, co-chair of the First Voice Indigenous Justice Action Circle, and is a member of the provincial Access to Justice (A2J) Committee. Carey teaches the Law Society’s bar admission course on human rights and regularly presents on human rights and social justice issues to employers, government, community groups, and in the media.
