Moya Teklu (she/her) is the executive director and general counsel of the Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC) and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Teklu has a long history of working to combat anti-Black racism in the justice system. At Legal Aid Ontario (LAO), she developed a plan that resulted in the delivery of clinic law services to hundreds of Black Ontarians; helped bring together and provided staff support to the inaugural board of BLAC; and authored LAO’s Racialized Communities Strategy.

Teklu has delivered anti-racism training to hundreds of judges, justices of the peace, lawyers, regulators, adjudicators, and educators across the country, including through the National Judicial Institute and the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators.