About
Wadana Abbas is an articling student at Ross & McBride. She completed her legal studies at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University, and has an Honours BA in Political Science from McMaster University in Hamilton, specializing in Public Law and Judicial Studies. She excelled in her studies, receiving the Margaret Cudmore Scholarship, Thomas Truman Memorial Prize, T.H.B. Symons Academic Grant in Canadian Politics, and Feliks Litkowski Prize in Political Science.
Wadana simultaneously studied at Humber College and received her Real Estate Salesperson License. During her time at Osgoode, Wadana was involved with the Osgoode Peer Support Centre, the Osgoode Women’s Network, and the Osgoode Charity Law Group and led the Osgoode Muslim Law Students’ Association in her final year. She also participated in multiple moots and received the Osgoode International Business Law Certificate. Wadana is multilingual, speaking English, Pashto and Urdu fluently.