Meet Our Team
Daria Deyholos, Cohort Leader, Returnity YYC Class of 2026 and 2027
Daria Deyholos is a lawyer at Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Her practise focuses on corporate litigation and arbitration, including shareholder disputes, actions involving breaches of restrictive covenants, and construction claims. Daria and her husband welcomed their first child in May of 2025 and their second in October of 2026. As a cohort leader of Returnity YYC, she is excited to continue the work of past leaders in building community for parents in t
Erin McKlusky, Cohort Leader, Returnity YYC Class of 2027
Erin is a lawyer at Fasken. Her practice focuses on regulatory, environmental, energy and Indigenous law. She joined Returnity in 2026 and is excited to help continue fostering connections and support among new parents in Calgary's legal community.
Past Cohort Leaders
Elyse Bouey
Elyse Bouey is a regulatory and environmental lawyer with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Her practice is focused on energy regulation, as well as environmental, administrative and Indigenous law issues across a broad range of sectors.
Sandra Aigbinode Lange
Sandra Aigbinode Lange is a Senior Legal Counsel at AltaLink LP (a Berkshire Hathaway Energy Company), with a focus on litigation and regulatory law.
Jena Colpitts
Jena is a lawyer at Jones Divorce and Family Law. Her practice is focused on all family law related matters, with a special interest in parenting disputes.
Sophie Lorefice
Sophie Lorefice is a lawyer with Dentons Canada LLP. Her practice focuses on general corporate and commercial litigation.
Navreet Bal
Navreet is legal counsel at the Alberta Utilities Commission.
Ali Beck
Ali Beck is a lawyer with Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP. Her practice focuses on financial services in the areas of banking and commercial lending transactions.
Monica Evans
Monica Evans is a family lawyer and mediator at Jennings Family Law in Calgary. Her practice focuses on the division of family property, child support, spousal support, and parenting arrangements.
Ashley Urch
Ashley Urch is a business & energy law associate at McCarthy Tétrault LLP.
Jillian Gamez
Jillian Gamez is a trial lawyer at Kaz Law.
Andrea MacLean
Andrea MacLean is an associate at JSS Barristers. She has a varied civil litigation practice with a keen focus on defamation actions.
Sasha Lallouz
Sasha Lallouz is an associate at Bishop & McKenzie LLP.
Allie Laurent
Allie Laurent is a partner with McLennan Ross LLP’s Calgary office. She practices labour and employment with a focus on employment litigation, human rights disputes and the education sector.
Our Founder
Kay She-Johnson
Kay is Senior Legal Counsel at Flair Airlines. Prior to that, she was a corporate associate at Baker McKenzie in London, UK, working in their energy, mining and infrastructure group. She articled and started her legal career at Bennett Jones in Calgary.
Kay and her husband returned to Calgary while she was on maternity leave. Her happy and always-hungry son, Archer, was born in July 2022.
Kay founded Returnity YYC after finding herself lacking a support network as a new mom with continued ambitions to succeed in law, and was the first cohort leader (Class of 2023). She found inspiration for Returnity from similar programs in London. It has been a true joy for her to meet other lawyers who are navigating similar parenthood and return to work challenges, and expand Returnity to other cities.