Founder

Krista works with organizations in every economic sector to help them create stronger and more functional workplaces, networks and communities. Before founding Root & Branch in 2020, Krista practised labour and employment law for 10 years. She is a certified workplace investigator and a perpetual student - particularly in aspects of non-profit leadership and governance, organizational behaviour, systems change, inclusion and belonging, and trauma-informed practices and interviewing techniques.

 

Krista recently finished a one-year term with Human Rights & Equity Services at Dalhousie University, where she updated and refined their Sexualized Violence, Harassment, and Discrimination Policies.​  From 2021-2023, Krista served as a full-time senior policy lawyer with the Mass Casualty Commission.

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Krista is also a lifelong volunteer and supporter of community-sector organizations. In addition to serving on the Board Executive at Be the Peace Institute (current) and L'Arche Halifax, she served as interim Executive Director for almost two years at a licensed non-profit early learning centre with approximately 20 staff and 79 children during a period of sector-wide labour shortage and pandemic.

 

Krista holds an LL.B. from Schulich School of Law, an M.A. in Journalism from Indiana University, and a B.A. in history from the University of California, Riverside, where she studied the colonial and post-colonial histories of sub-Saharan West Africa, Latin America, and the Black diaspora and minored in creative writing and economics. Krista immigrated to Canada in 2000 to volunteer as a live-in assistant at L'Arche Cape Breton, where she lived for almost two years before moving to Halifax for law school.