Meet the CALIBRATE Team

  • Sarah McCoubrey

    Partner, Strategist

    Sarah is an architect of the access to justice movement in Canada and internationally. She brings a new perspective and system-wide thinking to entrenched problems and emerging opportunities. She combines her legal experience with education and community expertise to build understanding and find creative solutions. Sarah leads CALIBRATE’s work in developing trainings and addressing complex issues relating to technology and civil justice.

    Prior to founding CALIBRATE, Sarah spent 15 years working in the public, non-profit and private sector to improve the Canadian justice system, including as Executive Director of the Ontario Justice Education Network.

    M. Ed, 2010, OISE, University of Toronto

    J.D., 2003, University of Victoria

    B.F.A,, major in Gender Studies, 1999, University of Victoria

  • Meredith Brown

    Partner, Strategist

    Meredith is a Canadian justice sector leader and change-maker dedicated to helping institutions and organizations understand and enhance their positive impact. Drawing upon her experience designing and implementing sustainable projects and systems, Meredith leads the evaluations practice at CALIBRATE.

    Prior to joining Calibrate, Meredith spent 17 years with the Ministry of the Attorney General for Ontario as a labour and employment lawyer and in court administration to tackle the challenges facing that system. She served as Chief Legal Counsel to three Deputy Attorneys General. She was the Executive Director of MAG's Innovation Office introducing a culture of transformation and delivering successful change by working creatively with private sector, judicial, and community representatives.

    J.D., 1999, University of Saskatchewan

    B.A., 1995, University of Toronto

  • Ashley Major

    Strategist

    Drawing on her expertise and prior experience as a domestic violence counselor and women’s rights advocate, Ashley specializes in CALIBRATE’s gender equality work.

    Prior to joining CALIBRATE, Ashley worked for three years as an independent consultant at a feminist consultancy. She also worked as a lawyer and researcher at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law’s International Human Rights Program. Ashley has conducted research, advocacy, and policy analysis on issues relating to gender-based violence, criminal law, and human rights, both domestically and internationally.

    B.A., 2012, University of Regina

    J.D., 2017, University of Toronto

    LL.M., 2019, University of Leiden

We work with talented people

OUR TEAM INCLUDES THE RIGHT EXPERTISE TO GET THE JOB DONE.

  • Medea Badashvili (Georgia)

    Tatevik Maragaryan (Armenia)

    Aysham Balayeva (Azerbaijan)

    Irina Alkhovka (Belarus)

    Diana Cheianu-Andrei (Moldova)

  • Victoria Perrie - Criminal Law and Indigenous Justice

    Evaleen Hellinga - Employment, Labour and Contracts Law, and Strategic Design

    Eliott Behar - International Criminal Law

    Simran Hunjun - Civil Legal Needs and User Data

    Kyle Risby - Indigenous Legal Orders

  • Gaia Orain - Design Strategist

    Medina Abdelkader - Strategic Foresight and User Experience

CALIBRATE provides first rate consulting services to the Action Committee. CALIBRATE’S team has great experience and provides unparalleled services on all aspects of the Action Committee’s work. CALIBRATE has a fabulous reputation in the Canada legal committee. I can’t recommend CALIBRATE or its team highly enough.

- Trevor C.W. Farrow, Member, Steering Committee and Chair of the Board of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice - Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters