Grad student Preeti Dhaliwal receives 2017 SWAAC Award of Merit

University of Victoria LL.M. candidate, Preeti Dhaliwal, received a 2017 Graduate Student Award of Merit from the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada. The annual award is given out to up to 4 recipients who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the university or general community while maintaining exemplary academic standing. Preeti is a critical race feminist, lawyer, writer, performer and facilitator. For more information on Preeti and the SWAAC award, go to http://www.swaac.ca/2017-winners.html.

Preeti is supervised by Associate Dean Gillian Calder and Dr. Monica Prendergast, and her LL.M. project is entitled: Re-embodying Jurisprudence: Using theatre and multimedia arts-based methods to support critical thinking, feeling and change in law.