Featured in Queen’s Alumni Review
The Queen’s Alumni Review, Queen’s University’s flagship alumni publication, featured Ningjing (Natalie) Zhang in its Spring 2024 issue. The magazine, which reaches over 100,000 alumni across Canada and internationally, profiled Ms. Zhang as part of its ongoing coverage of alumni making distinctive contributions in law, public service, and community leadership.
From Queen’s Law to BridgePoint Law
The feature traced her path from Queen’s Faculty of Law (Class of 2023) to the founding of BridgePoint Law in Kingston, and the refugee and immigration practice she has built since being called to the bar. It is a profile that speaks to what Queen’s Law graduates are taking into their practices — a commitment to clients at the margins of the legal system, delivered with the rigour the profession demands.
For a publication whose readership spans every era of Queen’s graduates and every field they have entered, the feature placed Ms. Zhang’s practice in front of an unusually broad audience — from lawyers in senior positions to alumni donors, from reporters to researchers tracking the university’s impact.
A Story About Direction
Alumni Review profiles are selective. The magazine covers graduates whose trajectories say something meaningful about where the institution’s contribution to the world is going. The choice to feature Ms. Zhang shortly after her call to the bar — and not a decade later, when the career is already made — signalled the Review’s recognition that the direction of her practice was already distinct and noteworthy.
What the Feature Connects
For Queen’s alumni, the profile is also a reminder that the work begun on campus continues long after convocation. For Ms. Zhang, it connects the intellectual commitments of her graduate and law studies to the daily reality of her firm’s clients. The line between who she was as a student and who she is as counsel is a short one, and the feature made that clear.
