Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May will be talking about the politics of the environment at The University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Law Tuesday, April 7.
May visits Western as part of the faculty’s Distinguished Speakers series. The lecture will be held at noon in the Moot Court Room in the Faculty of Law.
May is an environmentalist, writer, activist, and lawyer, and she became active in the environmental movement in the 1970s. She is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School and was admitted to the Bar in both Nova Scotia and Ontario.
She held the position of Associate General Council for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre prior to becoming Senior Policy Advisor to the federal minister of the Environment from 1986-1988. May became Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada in 1989, a position she held until March 2006, when she stepped down to run for leadership of the Green Party of Canada.
She is the author of six books, including co-authoring her most recent Global Warming for Dummies. May holds three honourary doctorates, and the Elizabeth May Chair in Women’s Health and the Environment at Dalhousie University was created in her honour.
May has served on the boards of numerous organizations, including the International Institute for Sustainable Development and the National Round Table on Environment and Economy and is currently is a member of the Earth Charter International Council.
May became an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2005, and was elected as leader of the Green Party of Canada in 2006.