I began my professional career at the Department of Justice Canada in 1989, where I practised administrative, constitutional, and criminal law. I also had the privilege of contributing to the training of experts and to the development of dispute resolution mechanisms within the Department of Justice Canada. This experience later expanded throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, allowing me to exercise leadership in key areas related to democracy and the rule of law across the Americas over the past 30 years.
 

Building on this experience, Justice Americas was established as a research, training and collaboration platform bringing together judicial and academic actors to promote access to justice through the strengthening of public institutions, the exchange of knowledge and the advancement of human rights.

Developed over the years, this research initiative is grounded in an interdisciplinary and comparative approach that has fostered close collaborations with an Inter-American network of legal scholars and practitioners committed to analyzing and strengthening the legitimacy, inclusiveness, and accessibility of legal systems.
 

At the same time, I completed a Ph.D at the University of Ottawa. My doctoral research focused on criminal justice reform and sought to strengthen the legitimacy of the criminal justice process, make the justice system more accessible to the public, and improve access to justice, particularly for groups in situations of vulnerability in the exercise of their rights.