Niamh Leonard is a lawyer and leads the Euphrosine Foundation, a time-bound philanthropic foundation working to protect and expand the spaces where people participate in public life and hold power to account. She also serves as Chair of Welcome Collective, an organization that supports refugee claimants in Montréal. Her work explores questions of public governance, collective decision-making, and how pluralist societies govern themselves across difference. In recognition of her commitment to equality, she received the Rosalie Silberman Abella Prize from the Royal Society of Canada. After a cancer diagnosis in her early thirties, she brings a renewed urgency to her belief in a world that honours the sacredness of life—where each person has a meaningful say in the conditions in which they live, and the freedom to shape their life with dignity and joy.
