Our Board
Laura Sparrow-Campbell, President
Laura Sparrow-Campbell is the Fisheries Manager of the Musqueam Indian Band where she works to defend and protect the environment and Musqueam’s constitutional and international rights. An Indigenous mother of four, Laura is passionate about getting involved in both local and national initiatives and has sat on various other local boards. Laura has been involved with JFG for over a decade. Laura firmly believes in the power of young women and teenage girls and focuses her work on supporting, advocating and educating Indigenous girls.
Haana Edenshaw, Board Member
A member of the Tsitts Gitanee clan of the Haida Nation on Haida Gwaii, Haana Edenshaw is one of 15 Canadian youth suing the Canadian government for its contributions to climate change. Haana has been an environmental justice and Indigenous rights activist for much of her life, organizing climate strikes, speaking alongside Greta Thunberg at the 2019 Rally for Climate Justice in Vancouver, delivering a speech in the Masset dialect of the Haida language at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in 2019, and presenting to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2020. Her deep commitment to social and environmental justice is rooted in the ancestral knowledge that land stewardship is both the basis of ecological health and essential to the practice and preservation of Indigenous culture.
Annabel Webb, Board Member/Co-Founder
Annabel Webb co-founded Justice for Girls in 1999 and has played a central role in the organization since. Annabel has worked locally, nationally, and internationally to promote the rights of teenage girls who live in poverty. Her current advocacy and legal research focuses on climate justice for girls. Annabel is a David Suzuki fellow and a founding director of Just Planet. She holds a BA in Psychology (UBC), MA in Counselling Psychology (UBC), a Master's degree in International Human Rights Law (Oxford, awarded with distinction), and is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of London as a Louise Arbour human rights scholar.
Chatelaine Magazine Features Profile on JFG Co-Founder Annabel Webb.
Margot Young, Board Member
Margot is Professor in the Allard School of Law at UBC. She is expert in the areas of constitutional law, social and economic rights, women's equality, and housing policy and rights. She has worked with JFG for over a decade, collaborating with the organization on United Nations alternative reports documenting women's rights in the province of BC. She has been on the Board of JFG for over five years and is the current chair of the David Suzuki Foundation board.
Yeganeh Asadian, Board Member
Yeganeh Asadian, P.Ag, holds a M.Sc. in Hydrology and has 10+ years of international experience in hydrology and environmental science, particularly in the context of protection and implementation of Indigenous rights as affirmed in The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). She developed Musqueam Indian Band’s Environmental Stewardship Department and has worked as a sessional instructor at the Native Education College lecturing in Indigenous Land Stewardship Program. As an immigrant woman in Canada, Yeganeh wants to ensure that all women and girls have access to community resources by increasing awareness and support to service providers and advocacy groups working with their demographic. Additionally, having worked in largely male-dominated fields throughout most of her career, Yeganeh is committed to minimizing discrimination against women and girls and to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Special thanks to Asia (Joanna) Czapska
We would like to acknowledge Asia (Joanna) Czapska for her leadership and service to Justice for Girls and young women in poverty from 2000-2016. Her vision, commitment and courage was fundamental to the longstanding success and credibility of the organization. Among her many achievements at Justice for Girls, Asia was a national leader in the advancement of girls' right to adequate housing in Canada and internationally.
Special thanks to Tracey McIntosh
A special thank you to Tracey McIntosh for putting in an extraordinary effort to reboot Justice for Girls following the devastation of the Harper years and for serving the organization for over a decade. During her time at Justice for Girls, Tracey was a strong advocate for girls' rights to education and freedom from violence.
We would like to acknowledge Asia (Joanna) Czapska for her leadership and service to Justice for Girls and young women in poverty from 2000-2016. Her vision, commitment and courage was fundamental to the longstanding success and credibility of the organization. Among her many achievements at Justice for Girls, Asia was a national leader in the advancement of girls' right to adequate housing in Canada and internationally.
Special thanks to Tracey McIntosh
A special thank you to Tracey McIntosh for putting in an extraordinary effort to reboot Justice for Girls following the devastation of the Harper years and for serving the organization for over a decade. During her time at Justice for Girls, Tracey was a strong advocate for girls' rights to education and freedom from violence.
