Ena Chadha

Chair, Human Rights Legal Support Centre

Ena Chadha is a senior human rights lawyer, investigator, scholar and mediator. As a proud member of Ontario’s South Asian community, Ena’s career has been dedicated to advancing social justice in the province. Ena is Chair of the Human Rights Legal Support Centre of Ontario. She served as former Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission during the pandemic; Co-reviewer of the ground breaking systemic racism review of the Peel District School Board; Vice-Chair with the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario from 2007-2015 and Director of Litigation with ARCH: Disability Law Centre, where she appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada in seminal equality rights cases. Ena has authored several precedent-setting human rights decisions and has published extensively on disability, race and gender discrimination and harassment. Ena is a recipient of the 2023 Law Society Medal.