Navjot Jassar
Navjot Jassar (she/her/hers) is a Staff Lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law working in the Revitalizing Indigenous Law for Land Air and Water (RELAW) program. She supports First Nations in standing up their laws and declaring, implementing and enforcing Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas. She has worked most closely with the Indigenous legal orders of coastal peoples and serves community partners in protecting both marine and terrestrial territories for the benefit of current and future generations. She studied common law and Indigenous legal orders in the world’s first degree program in Indigenous law.
Navjot is Punjabi, with roots in farming villages from the land of the five rivers that flow from the western Himalayas. Creative movement, plant medicine and the healing power of water are some of the life-affirming forces Navjot cherishes most. She is grateful for and honoured by the privilege to learn the first laws of the lands occupied by Canada and to work alongside Indigenous peoples in revitalizing their legal orders.
