Debjani Poddar is completing her third year of law school at the University of Ottawa, following the completion of an Honours Bachelor of Arts and Science at McMaster University as a recipient of the Canadian Merit Scholarship Foundation’s Loran Award. She has worked as an intern for the Canadian Centre for International Justice in 2006 and 2011 and completed a Directed Research Project on the treatment of charges for sexual violence in international criminal law. In 2012, she worked for the Law Commission of Ontario as a student researcher in family law and capacity and guardianship law. She is currently an intern with the International Criminal Court Legal Tools Project and a bilingual student caseworker in immigration and refugee law at Community Legal Services in Ottawa.
