Jennifer Stone

Jennie Stone is the Executive Director of Neighbourhood Legal Services, a community legal clinic serving downtown Toronto. She leads multidisciplinary work across housing, income security, immigration, and health justice, with a focus on administrative and regulatory systems affecting low-income communities. Jennie previously served as NLS’s staff immigration lawyer (2011–2018) and co-founded the Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre (now Justice Centre HK), one of the first independent organizations providing legal assistance to refugee claimants in Hong Kong.

At the national level, she has held senior roles within the Canadian Council for Refugees, including four years on its Executive Committee and five years co-chairing its Legal Affairs Committee, contributing to constitutional and administrative law advocacy on refugee and migrant rights.

Jennie also co-leads the Health Justice Program at St. Michael’s Hospital, an embedded medical-legal partnership that integrates legal supports into primary care and advances systemic reform on social determinants of health. In addition to teaching through the Health Justice Program’s clinical education placement, she co-taught Public Health Law in Canada: The Role of the State, Law and Human Rights (LAW388H1S / LAW6006HS) in Winter 2025.

She holds an Honours BA from McGill University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a JD from the University of Toronto, and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2005.