UVic law grad applies Indigenous legal teachings to a global context – UVic News
June 3, 2026
Rebecca Wong (she/her) is graduating from the JD/JID program. The UVic Law grad was born and raised on Algonquin territory in Ottawa to immigrant parents from Malaysia. Her mother is Bidayuh, an Indigenous group from the island of Borneo, and her father is Hakka. Rebecca earned her Master of Science in Migration Studies from Oxford in 2019.
She continued her career with the federal government at Indigenous Services Canada and Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada. In 2022, she moved with her husband Ben and their Yorkshire Terrier Hank to the traditional territory of the WSÁNEĆ, Lək̓ʷəŋən and Wyomilth peoples to begin law school.
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