Ellen Woodsworth speaking at a press conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Ellen Woodsworth is a former and newly elected Vancouver City Councillor. She was first elected in 2002 as a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors, lost her seat in 2005 and was re-elected in 2008.

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 also operated a travelling women's bookmobile and founded a women's newspaper The Other Woman in Toronto, Ontario and then moved to London, England to work with the International Wages for Housework Campaign. She settled in Vancouver in 1979. She was part of a national coalition that force the government to include unpaid work in the 1996 census and chaired the BC Action Canada Network.

Before politics, Woodsworth was a social planning analyst in North Vancouver, worked at the Vancouver YWCA, and was a Social Planning Analyst for the District of North Vancouver.

Woodsworth is openly lesbian^[1] and is, with Tim Stevenson, one of two openly LGBT members of Vancouver City Council.

[edit] Call for campaign finance changes

After Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson received campaign donations from at least two American supporters, Woodsworth called for a ban on foreign campaign donations such as those received by Robertson.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Ellen Woodsworth at Vancouver City Council