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Karen Mirsky

Karen Mirsky is a Vancouver criminal defence lawyer who appeared on The Traitors Canada. Explore her legal work, education and television debut.

Biography

Karen Mirsky is a Vancouver criminal defence lawyer and a contestant from The Traitors Canada season 4. Her legal work includes constitutional and protest law.

Karen’s career combines criminal defence and constitutional law with civil-liberties leadership. She entered The Traitors Canada’s fourth season.

Known for

The Traitors Canada season 4

Karen Mirsky is a Vancouver criminal defence lawyer and a contestant from The Traitors Canada season 4. Her legal work includes constitutional and protest law.[1][2]

Career highlights

  1. Career 1

    Education and legal qualifications

    Mirsky earned a creative-writing fine arts degree at UBC in 1997 and a law degree at Allard Hall in 2004. She was called to the British Columbia bar in 2005.[1]

  2. Career 2

    A broad criminal practice

    Her work at Gastown Litigation Counsel includes criminal defence, constitutional and protest law, and complainant representation. She completed a constitutional-law master's degree at Osgoode Hall in 2025.[1]

  3. Career 3

    Civil liberties work

    The BC Civil Liberties Association announced her as board president in May 2022. She brought earlier nonprofit governance experience with Pivot Legal and PACE Society to that position.[5]

  4. Career 4

    The Traitors Canada premiere

    Mirsky became the first player murdered by the Traitors in the fourth-season premiere. In her exit interview, she explained that she had kept her legal profession quiet.[6]

  5. Career 5

    Reflecting on a short game

    She later questioned whether holding back her personality had prevented stronger early connections. Mirsky singled out Kane and Bri as people she had begun to bond with before leaving.[6]