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Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess,

Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed

in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that. So get ready to get inspired,

get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.

I love having new conversations that might actually just teach us something really cool and

new. So please welcome Angela Chieson. Thank you for having me. I did it. I just found out

Trine. Okay, so Angela, tell us what you do and who you are. I am a litigation lawyer,

so I am a lawyer that fixes problems mostly for women. I go to court, I address issues of

revenge pornography, of intimate image distribution. I represent victims and survivors of human

trafficking, of sexual assault, sexual abuse. So I have a pretty female and queer centric practice,

which is a bit unusual for a lawyer. Yes. And how what caused you to want to do that? Like where,

where did it fall in line that you were like, this is what my work is going to be?

I had a pretty traditional career path out of law school. I articleed, which is your sort of

practicum that you do at a criminal defense firm. I stayed there for five or six years,

and at the same time, I'm a feminist. Oh, I love. I'm a feminist. I'm a queer person. I'm very outspoken

about that. And so through my volunteer work and through my just being in the community,

a lot of people were coming to me through with their legal problems. Yes. And that was the work

that I was really loving. That was really captivating me. Yeah. And that motivated me enough that,

for example, I ended up taking on a case that went all the way up to the Supreme Court of Canada.

No way. Are you allowed to say what that is? Oh, absolutely. I don't know why.

All this legal stuff. I'm already like sweating. No, that's really cool. Can you go ahead and share?

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