Oyeyinka Oyelowo

Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, Canada

Title: Leadership Development: A case study of political, environmental and social activism led by Women

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Biography

Oyeyinka Oyelowo is an award winning lawyer, and counsel at Chin and Orr Lawyers in Ontario. As a decision maker, Ms. Oyelowo presided over appeal hearings for disability based benefits from 2021 to 2023. Following her decision making experience, Ms. Oyelowo founded the media distribution company - All-In Media with entertainment industry heavyweights from across North America. Oyeyinka Oyelowo is also the founder of Yinka Law as well as the Board Director for the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace - an UNESCO accredited United Nations group focused on advancing women’s rights, climate justice and peace initiatives around the world. Following her legal work in-house with the Fortune-500 company Manulife, leading law firms and as a decision maker with a Tribunal, she honed strong business acumen and expertise in negotiating settlement agreements. Ms. Oyelowo supports individuals and businesses, she provides legal services to technology companies, production companies, emerging filmmakers and employees seeking justice. Her knowledge of working with production companies is developed from Her production experience on the CBC “Dreamfunded” show, her expertise in entertainment law has been developed through Her work with the Documentary Organization of Canada and Cinema Politica. By representing clients using human rights laws and litigation, Yinka Law works to eradicate human rights violations by educating individuals about how to understand the law and navigate the court system. Her mission is to ensure access to justice through litigation which involves understanding how human rights laws affect our past, present and future. Given her work, she received the 2023 Emerging Lawyer Award from the Barbra Schlifer Clinic.

Ms. Oyelowo has developed strong expertise in women’s rights and policy development to address violence against women, through her administrative law work as an Adjudicator at the Social Benefits Tribunal, where she responsible for upholding or dismissing appeals following the denial of disability benefits pursuant to the Ontario Disability Support Program Act. The amalgamation of her litigation experience and her quasi-judicial work for Tribunals Ontario forms the basis for her qualification to be your legal representative.

Ms. Oyelowo typically collaborates with international civil society organizations to teach courses related to human rights and international law. For example, Yinka Law worked with the Ontario Justice Education Program to deliver human rights training in the Together 180 program. The event occurred on May 7, 2022, there were over 15 young people in attendance. Yinka Law has collaborated with the Elementary Teachers of Toronto in April of 2022 to deliver feminist and anti-racism programming to over 500 individuals in attendance.

Ms. Oyelowo was nominated as one of Canada’s Most Influential Lawyers in the field of Human Rights law in the year 2021 and 2023. Yinka Law clients have consistently heralded her as a strong advocate with unparalleled results protecting her clients’ best interests. Ms. Oyelowo provides sophisticated, efficient and poised legal services that produce excellent results and help marginalized clients access justice regardless of their sex, race or economic background. Ms. Oyelowo is also the founder Alagbara Media Inc., and a co-creator of “Safe Spaces” a documentary series that questions whether psychological and/or physical spaces can be created to protect vulnerable groups, such as women experiencing poverty and/or homelessness from harm.

Ms. Oyelowo provides pro-bono legal services to individuals who are from vulnerable socio-economic backgrounds, specifically to those with limited financial resources so that they are empowered to pursue litigation, higher education, mental health support, healthy eating habits and legal support.

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