Lorin MacDonald

Lorin MacDonald, CM, OOnt, LSM, JD (She/Her)

LinkedIn / Email: lorin@hearvue.com

Born with profound hearing loss, Lorin MacDonald has spent more than three decades dismantling barriers in Canadian law and transforming how institutions include people with disabilities. As founder of HearVue Inc., she combines lived experience with deep legal expertise to deliver accessibility strategy and consulting across Canada. She teaches Disability Law at Western University’s Faculty of Law and created the inaugural Disability Law course at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Lincoln Alexander School of Law.

Her landmark litigation includes Butler-Henderson v. Pentagram Bar & Grill (2020), in which the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario affirmed that denying washroom access in public spaces constitutes a human rights violation. She was involved in creating momentum for the passage of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and served nearly two decades on AODA standards development committees. Named among Canadian Lawyer’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Human Rights (2021), her public thought leadership appears in Canadian Lawyer Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The Hill Times, and the Toronto Star.

Lorin holds the Order of Canada (2024), the Order of Ontario (2022), and the King Charles III Coronation Medal (2025). She is a recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case, the Law Society of Ontario Medal, the Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Daniel G. Hill Award, and is an inductee of the Canadian Disability Hall of Fame.

Lorin received her law degree from Western University’s Faculty of Law and lives in Toronto, Ontario