Lynn Factor

Social Work ’80
Child and Youth Advocate

Driven by her unflagging commitment to social justice, Lynn Factor has devoted over 35 years to improving services and programs for society’s most vulnerable children. Presently Lynn serves as Child Witness Advocate with the Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre (CYAC), preparing child victims and witnesses of crime to testify in criminal court. She is Chair of the Board of the Children’s Aid Foundation and a Board Member for Covenant House. She has been named to the Order of Ontario, and received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws and an Arbour Award from University of Toronto. She has been an active member of the Dean’s Advisory Council at Ryerson in the Faculty of Community Services since 2009. Lynn was recently named to the Order of Canada.