<b>Joan McEwen</b> is a Vancouver-born labour lawyer and arbitration specialist. Educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia, she was called to the bar in 1978. After making partner at two law firms, she became a freelance labour arbitrator, her specialty since 1990. She is actively involved in innocence projects across North America that help exonerate and compensate the wrongfully convicted. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.