An outstanding daughter of the soil, Sharon Fflokes Abrahams is an accomplished attorney-at-law, an outstanding lecturer in law, a long-standing newspaper columnist and a well-loved wife and mother.

Sharon is a proud graduate of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill and Osgoode Hall, York University, from where she received her Master’s degree in Administrative Law in 2003. She is also the holder of a diploma in Alternate Dispute Resolution and Negotiation from the Stitt Feld handy Group in association with the University of Windsor; another of her professional accomplishments realized in 2006.

This committed defender who has successfully practiced before in Ontario Courts and Tribunals in the areas of Immigration, Human Rights and Criminal Law, has always had a passion for social justice having worked with Constitutional Reform Committee as a law student in Jamaica. Her commitment to the sanctity of the law was always evident, resulting in her election as President of the Law Guild while at UWI, Cave Hill, and as President of the Rojas Delos Davis Law Guild in Canada.

A member of York Region Accessibility Advisory Committee, Sharon was also counsel for the Human Rights Commission and manager of Human Rights for the Bank of Nova Scotia. She is immediate Past President of the Jamaican Diaspora Foundation of Canada, where she capably represented the country’s interests.

This remarkable Jamaican has been recognized internationally for her professional accomplishments and was bestowed with an outstanding award from York Region, Ontario, Canada for Legal Achievement in 2004.

Sharon now lectures in law at the University of Technology in Montego Bay and is a weekly columnist for the Gleaner newspaper on immigration matters. She is also an ordained Minister of Religion.