Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell

Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell is a creative and practical problem solver.

Workplaces are communities.

At their best, they are collaborative, efficient and united. Njeri helps employers realize the potential of their workplaces through the development of polices and procedures; the design and delivery of training for managers and employees; and when the need arises, resolution of legal disputes through mediation and litigation.

Labour Relations

Njeri supports employers in all aspects of the labour relations cycle. She supports and advises on collective bargaining including complex negotiations and interest arbitration for a broader public sector organization. She also regularly appears before labour arbitrators to resolve and litigate grievances under client’s collective agreements. She appreciates the importance of balancing the resolution of discrete disputes with the need to maintain productive working relationships between employers and bargaining agents.

Policy Development

Njeri assists employers shape workplace culture through the design of legally sound and values-forward workplace policies and procedures. Her policy design approach is team-based and collaborative and recognizes the importance of policies that are reflective of the client’s culture; not merely templates.

Strategic Advising: Human Rights and Equity

Prior to her legal career, Njeri was employed as a Human Rights and Diversity Advisor at a community college. She combines this practical experience with her legal knowledge to support clients faced with complaints, publicity and litigation in these areas.

Litigation

Njeri regularly defends employers before the Human Rights Tribunal, at labour arbitrations and in courts.

About Njeri

Once a youth activist, Njeri now devotes her civic engagement time to mentorship. She believes in the transformative power of legal professionals, and is committed to creation of a more equitable professional community. Immediately after her Call to the Bar in 2015, Njeri founded UJIMA Mentorship Circle, a supportive space for Black female-identified students and lawyers. Through UJIMA, Njeri leverages her professional relationship to forge bonds between her mentees and experienced practitioners and members of the bench.

In her spare time, she can be found sampling artisanal teas and craft stouts, reading and reviewing science fiction and fantasy novels, and collecting Isaac Asimov books for her wife.