Ellen Woodsworth

Ellen Woodsworth is a former Vancouver City Councillor and first elected in 2002 as a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors.

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. 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 as a Social Planning Analyst for the District of North Vancouver. Ellen Woodsworth works for social justice and economic equality. She was also:

* founder, Cities Coordinator and Secretary of the World Peace Forum, 2006
* Vancouver City Councillor 2002-2005:Her Local and Regional Council Appointments included:
** Vancouver Director, Union of British Columbia Municipalities and member of the Health Committee
** Vancouver Director, Lower Mainland Treaty Advisory Committee
** Alternate, Greater Vancouver Regional District
** Director, Hastings Institute Inc. Board
** Vice-Chair, Standing Committee on City Services and Budgets
** Member, Standing Committee on Planning and Environment
** Member, Standing Committee on Transportation and Traffic
** Council representative to the City Seniors Advisory Committee
** Council representative to the City Family court and youth justice committee
** Member, Food Task Force
** Member of the Creative Cities Task Force
** Vice Chair, Peace and Justice Committee
** Co-Chair, Women’s Task Force which produced the Gender Equality Strategy for the City of Vancouver
** Member of Women and Cities International
** President of Vancouver Chapter of WILPF
** coordinator of the Seniors Summit
** leader of the formation "Breaking the Silence Against Violence of Women coalition" for Downtown Eastside Vancouver agencies
** chairperson of Bridge Housing Society for Women
** member of Strathcona Community Gardens
** President of Britannia Community Centre
** President of South Vancouver Family Place
** member of the board of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered "Generations Project"
** Board member of Reach Community Health Clinic