Jane Sterk is the leader of the Green Party of British Columbia, a candidate in the Esquimalt-Royal Roads riding in the 2009 British Columbia provincial election, and a business professor at University Canada West. She was elected leader of the provincial Green Party in October 2007, and elected councillor in the Township of Esquimalt in 2005. She had participated in the 2004 federal election and the 2005 provincial election as a candidate in the Esquimalt ridings, placing fourth and third with 9% and 10% of the vote, respectively.
Before moving to Esquimalt in 1997, Sterk had lived in Edmonton. She earned a doctorate from the University of Alberta in counseling psychology and worked for Edmonton Public Schools and the Edmonton Board of Health. In 1983 she co-founded a business, Softwarehouse West, with a co-worker from the Board of Health. She sold computers, hardware, software, and related services until she retired to Esquimalt in 1997 intending to purchase a boat and sail recreationally.
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