Beverly Jacobs

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Associate Dean (Academic) Beverly Jacobs appeared on Pam Palmater's Warrior Life podcast to share her inspiring journey and lessons learned from her path in Indigenous education, politics and advocacy.

According to their website, the Warrior Life podcast is about living a lifestyle that focuses on decolonizing our minds, bodies and spirits through education, health and community.

According to a Toronto Star article, today marks 100 days since the beginning of the occupation at what Haudenosaunee land defenders have called 1492 Land Back Lane and where Foxgate Developments — a joint venture by Losani Homes and Ballantyne Homes — still hopes to build a 218-unit subdivision, called McKenzie Meadows.

Associate Dean (Academic) Beverly Jacobs appeared on APTN National News to explain the 1492 Land Back Lane reclamation at Caledonia. Since July, Six Nations land defenders began occupying a planned 1000 unit Mackenzie Meadows building site near Caledonia, ON. 

In a CBC article about judicial diversity targets, Associate Dean (Academic) Beverly Jacobs, said merely appointing a more diverse bench won't be good enough if the laws themselves don't change.

"It just means that it becomes a brown system with the same colonial laws so it's not going to work," Dr. Jacobs said.

Just months after receiving word of her promotion from assistant to associate professor in the Faculty of Law, Beverly Jacobs has been appointed the next associate dean (academic) at Windsor Law, both effective July 1, 2020.

Windsor Law Professor Beverly Jacobs co-authored an opinion piece that was published in the Globe and Mail this week. The article, co-authored by Meggie Cywinkwith, addressed the inactivity surrounding violence against Indigenous women (MMIWGT2S+). 

Prof Jacobs (right) stands with Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette

Last month in Ottawa, Windsor Law professor Beverley Jacobs was invested into The Order of Canada by her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada.