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Sam Yorke (born 1986) B.A.H. (Queen's) is a political operative and student of legal theory. His area of study focuses on the cleavage between feminism and ethnic conflict and the necessity of revising international human rights. He is currently a student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Yorke was also a former aide to the Government of Ontario. He was an aide for Min. John Gerretsen in the Office of Municipal Affairs and Housing of Ontario in the summer of 2006. He also served as an aide to Min. Michael Bryant in the Office of the Attorney General in the summer of 2007.

In the summer of 2008, Yorke worked as an intern at Grameen Bank in Dhaka, Bangladesh. While there, Yorke wrote a research paper critiquing the Grameen model of micro-finance for economies outside of Bangladesh. He also interviewed Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus. The interview was published in Syndicus, a Queen’s University student publication.

Before entering his first year of legal study at the University of Toronto, Yorke received funding to expand the Positive Space Campaign across Canadian campuses and outside of the realm of academia. Yorke is currently on the Sen. Sister Peggy Butts Sabbatical.

Family History

Sam Yorke was born Samuel Charles Eyking Yorke on May 9, 1986 in Halifax. At the time, his father, Charles, and Mother, Elizabeth, we living in Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia. The family has since moved to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where Charles works as the Principal of Dr. T.L. Sullivan Junior High and Elisabeth works as a teacher at Holy Angels High School.

Charles and Elizabeth have three children, Samuel, Lisette, and Emily. While Samuel attended Upper Canada College on a hockey and baseball scholarship for high school, both Lisette and Emily graduated top of their class from Memorial Composite High School in North Sydney, Nova Scotia. Lisette Yorke(born 1987) graduated from University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in 2009 with a BSc in Biology. She was awarded the Rhodes Scholarship for the Maritime region along with Amul Verma for the Class of 2009. Lisette’s study at Oxford will focus on Integrated Immunology and global health initiatives. Both Samuel and Lisette were named finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship in the winter of 2008, which represents the first time in the recorded history of the Rhodes Trust that a brother and sister were finalists in the same year and region.

Emily Irene Yorke (born 1990) is the youngest of the family and is in the first year of her undergraduate studies at Harvard College.