Kaitlyn Mitchell

Staff lawyer Kaitlyn Mitchell believes that every Canadian needs a healthy environment to enjoy life. 

She’s especially troubled by the inequality that overexposes low-income and First Nations communities to pollution from harmful industrial developments. Kaitlyn is working on our Chemical Valley Charter Challenge, representing two members of Aamjiwnaang First Nation that are opposing government’s decision to approve increased pollution near their community without considering how it might affect their health. Kaitlyn shares leadership duties for our Environment, Human Rights and Public Participation team and is working to protect Ontarians and their drinking water from a plan to build new nuclear reactors in Clarington, Ont.

Kaitlyn knew she wanted to join Ecojustice while completing her undergraduate studies and was Ecojustice's summer student in 2006. She joined the staff full time in 2010. 

Kaitlyn loves animals, especially rescued ones. She shares her home with pets adopted from shelters — three cats and her puppy Luka, born in a scrap metal yard near Woodstock, Ont.

Office: Toronto 

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