Asian Canadian Law Students Conference 2015
Immigration Panel
Avvy Go
Avvy Go is the Clinic Director of Metro Toronto Chinese & Southeast Asian Legal Clinic and has served in that role since 1992. Since her call to the Bar, Avvy has worked exclusively in the legal clinic system, serving the legal needs of low income immigrants with linguistic and other barriers in accessing the legal system. She is a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and is currently a part time adjudicator of the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board and the Health Services Appeal and Review Board. Apart from her legal practice, Avvy spends much of her time in community organizing and advocacy work.
Elizabeth Long
Elizabeth has managed the corporate immigration files of many Fortune 500 companies and represented high-profile immigration clients who have appeared in the national media. She is an active advocate of immigration and refugee rights in Canada and frequently presents and advises on immigration issues to organizations, Members of Parliament, unions, and the media. She has also testified several times before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on various immigration policies.
Elizabeth was attending Memorial University in Newfoundland when she began volunteering with an organization that helped newcomers come to Canada. It was there that she realized that this was the career for her. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours in Psychology at Memorial and then attended the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, graduating with a Juris Doctor law degree. She then worked at several of the top corporate law firms in Canada before leaving to found Long Mangalji LLP.
Elizabeth has been Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Citizenship and Immigration Law, a prestigious list of which only 51 lawyers in all of Canada belong.
