{"id":4068,"date":"2021-01-11T14:55:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T19:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=4068"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:17","slug":"dewolfe-appointed-to-ns-human-rights-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2021\/dewolfe-appointed-to-ns-human-rights-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"DeWolfe Appointed to NS Human Rights Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        DeWolfe Appointed to NS Human Rights Commission\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Savannah DeWolfe has been appointed a member of Nova Scotia\u2019s Human Rights Commission for a three-year term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeWolfe is an alumna of the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management. After graduation, she worked in Ottawa for the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Environment, before returning to university to study law. She is now a lawyer at McInnes Cooper, a business law firm in Atlantic Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Human Rights Commission is an independent government agency that administers the province\u2019s Human Rights Act. As a commissioner, DeWolfe will help to enforce the act and to set the commission\u2019s overall direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeWolfe graduated from the Political Management program in 2017. She recalls that the program deepened her understanding of how the political system works and helped her develop a professional network of politicos in all parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savannah DeWolfe has been appointed a member of Nova Scotia\u2019s Human Rights Commission for a three-year term. DeWolfe is an alumna of the Clayton H. Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management. After graduation, she worked in Ottawa for the Minister of Justice and the Minister of the Environment, before returning to university to study law. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4070,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4068\/revisions\/4070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}