Moira graduated with distinction on obtaining her Specialist B.A. from the University of Toronto, where she also obtained her law degree with honours in 2000, and her LL.M. in Indigenous Peoples’ Law and Policy from the University of Arizona in 2005. She was called to the Bar in 2002. Moira is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law.

During her law studies, Moira was awarded the McCarthy Tetrault Award for Academic Excellence, the Laskin Prize in Constitutional Law, the Blaney, McMurtry Stapells Prize in Native Peoples Law, and the Law Society Award for Academic Excellence. On her call to the Ontario Bar, Moira received the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History Prize and shared the S.J. Birnbaum Q.C. Scholarship Second Prize.

In    addition    to   her   personal   injury   practice  and

administrative duties at the firm, Moira has pursued an interest in international human rights through research support for a number of books and articles concerning indigenous rights issue, and assisting in international indigenous land claims litigation. In 2007, she was part of the legal team representing the indigenous Maya claimants in successful land claim litigation in Belize, and continues to work with them in ongoing litigation to secure Maya land rights. In September 2008, Moira was asked to serve as a judge on the International Opinion Tribunal concerning human rights violations in Colombia.

Moira has been with Carranza since the firm’s inception in 1994. She has two young children and is fluent in Spanish.

Moira's litigation team includes Juan Carranza, Noemi Flores and Patty Lee.