Ellen Woodsworth is a former Vancouver City Councillor. She was first elected in 2002 as a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors, lost her seat in 2005, was re-elected in 2008 and lost again in 2011 by 91 votes behind Adriane Carr (.06% of the vote).
Born in Toronto, Woodsworth went to high school in Japan before returning to Canada to complete her BA at the University of British Columbia. Later her political work took her back to Toronto. She co-founded a travelling women's bookmobile and co-founded and edited a women's newspaper The Other Woman in Toronto, Ontario. She then moved to London, England to work with the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and helped found the Canadian chapter. Woodsworth settled in Vancouver in 1979. She was part of a national coalition that forced Canada to include unpaid work in the 1996 census; and she chaired the BC Action Canada Network, which opposed free trade agreements.
Before politics, Woodsworth was a social planning analyst in North Vancouver and worked at the Vancouver YWCA.
Woodsworth is openly lesbian and was, with Tim Stevenson, one of two openly LGBT members of Vancouver City Council.
Read more about Ellen Woodsworth: Record On Urban Density, Call For Campaign Finance Changes, Women Transforming Cities International Society
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