Anne Charlotte Bishop is an activist, author, educator, food security advocate, labour organizer, and community development worker.
She also worked for the Nova Scotia Public Service in the area of diversity and employment equity as well as food security issues within Canada.
She briefly attended the University of Toronto's Centre for Christian Studies in the 1970s with the intent to join the United Church of Canada as a Deaconess.
[2] In the 1980s she helped organize a union of workers (predominantly women) at a local fish plant in Pictou County where she worked.
[9] She was actively involved in social issues related to LGBT rights, union organizing, food system advocacy, equity and anti-racist efforts in the province of Nova Scotia since the mid-1980s.