Jael Duarte

E-mail: advocate@nbtenants.ca

Phone: 506 910 2093

Available Hours: 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday to Friday. Please leave a message and the Advocate will call you back.

Jael Duarte is the Tenants Advocate for New Brunswick, employed by the Saint John Human Development Council. She is a graduate of Common and Civil Law at the University of Ottawa. She holds a Master’s Degree in Development Studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and worked as a lawyer focused in Human Rights in Colombia for seven years. She is fluent in Spanish, French, and English, has lived in France as a Live-in Caregiver and in Switzerland as an international student. Throughout her professional career, Jael has worked in human rights, gender, and social justice issues. She is very active in the immigrant community. As a tenant in Fredericton, she has faced many of the current challenges experienced by tenants in New-Brunswick in order to find a place suitable for her family needs.