Suzie Dunn has joined Dalhousie's Schulich School of law as an Assistant Professor for 2021-2022. She is also a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law.Her research centers on the intersections of gender, equality, technology and the law, with a specific focus the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, deepfakes, and impersonation in digital spaces. She was awarded a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship for her PhD research.As an innovative thinker with a deep passion for human rights and technology, she has published and presented her work both nationally and internationally on issues including the importance of internet connectivity for northern youth, the application of Canadian law to deepfake technology, and civil responses to the non-consensual distribution of intimate images. She is currently a Senior Fellow with CIGI and works as a legal researcher with The eQuality Project and the BC Society of Transition Houses.In 2018, she worked as a policy advisory with the Digital Inclusion Lab at Global Affairs Canada in drafting two international commitments to end gender-based violence in digital contexts, including the G7’s “Charlevoix Commitment to End Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, Abuse and Harassment in Digital Contexts” and the UN Human Rights Committee’s resolution titled “Accelerating Efforts to Eliminate Violence against Women and Girls: Preventing and Responding to Violence against Women and Girls in Digital Contexts”, both of which were adopted that year.In 2018, Suzie was part of the legal team that supported CIPPIC’s Supreme Court of Canada intervention in R v Jarvis. That decision clarified the term “reasonable expectation of privacy” in the criminal voyeurism provision. The SCC found that the girls who had been secretly filmed by their teacher in this case did have a reasonable expectation of privacy in those circumstances and set out a contextual analysis for future cases. This was a key case in the jurisprudence related to privacy and image-based abuse.Outside of academia, Suzie has worked with several national non-profit organizations that address gender equality. Between 2017-2019 she acted as the co-chair of the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action, which advocates for women’s rights in Canada by utilizing international human rights treaties. She currently sits on advisory committee with the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund that addresses issues related to technology facilitated violence.She was called to the bar in 2016.