Sania Chaudhry

Sania Chaudhry is a full-time practicing lawyer in Calgary and is also a current part-time student at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law in their Masters of Law program, with her research focusing on critical race theory and administrative law in the context of reasonable apprehension of bias. Sania is also a current Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Alberta Board Director, Board Liaison and Past Chair of the CBA Alberta Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Member of the CBA National Equality Subcommittee, President of the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers – Western Chapter, Practice Group Leader and Secretary of The Advocates’ Society Regulatory & Administrative Law Group, Member of the Law Society of Alberta Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Committee, Board Director of the Centre for Sexuality, and Chair and Founder of the Alberta Chapter of the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association.

She is also a Member-at-Large of the CBA National Administrative Law section and a member of the Young Advocates Standing Committee, as well as the Diversity and Inclusion Standing Committee, of the Advocates’ Society. Her op-ed highlighting intersectionality and mental health in the legal profession was recently published in the Globe and Mail and she was a speaker on gendered Islamophobia at the LEAF Edmonton Equality Breakfast in April 2022. Also, she has published other articles on EDI issues in the profession elsewhere as well over the years.

She was recognized in 2022 as a Top 30 Under 30 by the Alberta Council of Global Cooperation. Sania was also recently appointed in 2022 onto the Alberta Anti-Racism Advisory Council.