Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich

Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich is a Canadian writer and academic.
Early life
Rebecca grew up as Rebecca Jaremko, one of four children of Gordon and Beverley Jaremko, in Calgary, Alberta. She left home at a young age and became a legally emancipated minor at age sixteen and worked to support herself, but still excelled academically, graduating as high school valecdictorian and receiving a Persons Case scholarship from the Government of Alberta. She continued her studies at the University of Calgary and graduated at the top of her undergraduate class. The trend continued for her in law school, which she attended on scholarship, and where she graduated with many scholarships and awards. Her teen years as a legally emancipated minor form part of the inspiration for her analysis in her Ph.D. thesis, which became the critically acclaimed feminist book unpacking the Ashley Smith case: Looking for Ashley: What the Smith Case Reveals About the Governance of Girls, Mothers, and Families in Canada. Nearly ten years after Smith's death in prison, this remains the only book in print about the case.
Writing career
Bromwich has written and contributed to several academic books, including:
* Bad Mothers: Representations and Resistance co-edited with Michelle Hughes-Miller and Tamar Hager, forthcoming in 2017
* Looking for Ashley: What Re-Reading What the Smith Case Reveals About Governance of Girls, Mothers and Families in Canada
* Mothers, Mothering and Sex Work, an interdisciplinary collection featuring new Canadian writing as well as works by Alice Munro and Maya Angelou, co-edited with Monique Marie DeJong. This book was published in July, 2015.
* Youth and the Law: New Approaches to Criminal Justice and Child Protection, an Emond Montgomery textbook co-authored with Susan Reid and Sarah Gilliss.
* Incarcerated Mothers: Oppression and Resistance, co-edited with psychologist Gordana Eldjupovic, released in 2013. Bromwich is also a regular contributor to several legal, educational and feminist blogs and has written for the Lawyers Weekly and the Law Times.
* Bromwich has also published fiction, poetry, and has illustrated many of her books with her paintings, done in oil paints and acrylic.
Legal career
Rebecca Bromwich was called to the Ontario Bar in 2003. She worked in private practice from 2003-2009, starting at a large firm. She did criminal and civil litigation work. Bromwich also worked for six years as Staff Lawyer, Law Reform and Equality, to the Canadian Bar Association, then as a Policy Counsel with the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. She continues to be licensed with the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Academic career
After several years practicing law, Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich returned to academic study and was the first ever graduate of the Ph.D. program at the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. She received her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Carleton University Department of Law and Legal Studies, and . She was awarded a Carleton Senate Medal as well as the 2015 CLSA Graduate Student Essay Prize for her graduate work. Rebecca also has an LL.M. and LL.B., received from Queen’s University in 2002 and 2001 respectively, and holds a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Cincinnati. Immediately after her graduation in 2015, Bromwich was appointed to a Faculty position with the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. She is now the Director of the Graduate Diploma in Conflict Resolution Program in that Department.
Politics and public Life
Rebecca Bromwich was a candidate for the Green Party of Canada for the Federal Riding of London West in 2004. She also served as campaign Chair to Green Party Leader Elizabeth May when May ran in London North Centre in a by-election in 2006. Bromwich served as Justice and Legal Affairs critic for the Greens until she left for the United States in 2007. After returning to Canada in 2009, Rebecca stepped back from the Green Party, and took on a role as a registered lobbyist for the Canadian Bar Association in a non-partisan role to "improve the law", which she held until taking on her Faculty appointment. Rebecca has not renewed her affiliation with the Green party, although she reportedly "continues to be passionate" about environmental activism. In recent years, she has publicly supported a range of progressive candidates. Rebecca Bromwich appeared on a November 2016 episode of "Canada's Smartest Person".
Personal life
Rebecca married surgeon and tech entrepreneur Dr. Matthew Bromwich in 2001. They have four children together.

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