Karen Ameyaw is a Senior Prevention Advisor at WorkSafeBC. She is a practising lawyer with over 13 years of experience and prior to joining WorkSafeBC in 2017 worked in private practice and government settings. Karen holds a BA (Criminology) from Simon Fraser University and a LL.B from the University of Victoria. As a volunteer she helped to establish the BC Chapter of the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers in 2010, was a member of the City of Vancouver Renters Advisory Committee, and from 2018 to 2021, she was a council member on the Real Estate Council of British Columbia. In addition to being involved in her community, Karen is an adjudicator for the Law Society of British Columbia Tribunal, sits on the board of the Law Foundation of BC, and is a member of the Community Care and Assisted Living Appeal Board.