Deborah joined West Coast in June 2010 as Staff Counsel, and will work on the Green Communities and Climate Change projects.

Deborah spent the past four years at the David Suzuki Foundation on the climate change team, where she worked with Canadian municipalities in the lead-up to the Copenhagen climate negotiations, and also developed strategies and promoted best practices for businesses and decision-makers (including the Vancouver Olympic organizers) to manage and reduce the climate impacts of their organizations.

She holds civil and common law degrees from McGill University and was called to the B.C. Bar in 1997. After articling she practised litigation in Vancouver until 2002, including work on behalf of survivors of Indian residential schools. From 2002-2005 she worked in Geneva assisting Holocaust survivors achieve redress following the settlement of a major U.S. class action brought against Swiss banks.