Yasmeen Grant is a Barrister & Solicitor and serves as in-house legal council for Tyhee. She holds an International Baccalaureate from the United World College of Southeast Asia, a B.A. in Modern Languages from McGill University, and a J.D. from the University of Victoria.

 

Yasmeen hails from a mixed European and South Asian background and is fluent in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. Her multicultural ancestry, lived experience, and broad education have taught her that all beings should be free from oppression and injustice. She is a proponent of universal human rights, civil liberties, and freedom of conscience. 

 

Yasmeen has worked in the areas of poverty law, family law, and with Amazonian Indigenous groups seeking to protect their traditional knowledge, medicines, livelihood, and ecosystems.  Locally, she seeks to help better the standard of living, quality of life, and access to justice for marginalized and vulnerable members of society, particularly the Indigenous peoples of this land, who have been subjected to systemic racism and institutionalized violence historically. 

 

Yasmeen currently serves as in-house Counsel for Tyhee Financial Services, managing a comprehensive asset and investment portfolio which includes commercial & residential real estate, hotels, as well as various businesses and large-scale capital projects, both on- and off-reserve.

 

Yasmeen is developing the legal and ethical backbone of Tyhee Financial by designing industry practices and protocols which honour traditional knowledge and recognize that collectively-held Indigenous cultural property is sacred, inviolable and inalienable. She is also responsible for drafting and overseeing legal agreements that incorporate principles of Indigenous self-governance & sovereignty, and which uphold the ethics of diversity and equality.