Ellen Woodsworth

She went to the Canadian Academy in Japan for high school, before returning to Canada to complete her BA at the University of British Columbia.

[citation needed] After earning her degree, she co-founded and edited the newspaper titled The Other Woman in Toronto and created CORA the Women's Liberation Bookmobile with Judith Quinlan.

In 1979, Woodsworth was part of a national group that got Canada to include unpaid work in the 1996 census, making it the first country in the world to do so.

On May 29, 2019, she was able to get the City of Vancouver to unanimously pass a motion to put a gendered intersectional lens measurable and supported on all departments for six years.

In 2016, Woodsworth was invited to speak in Prague at the EU/North American UN-Habitat 3 Regional meeting, in New York to participate in the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights.

She was part of the WTC panel at the Canadian Planners Institute AGM and a keynote speaker at the SFU conference on women and the environment.

At the World Urban Forum 9 in Kuala Lumpur, she chaired the Women Transforming Cities panel which launched an online platform.

She chaired the Sep 11 launch of the Women Friendly Cities 2018 Hot Pink Paper Municipal Campaign in Vancouver which was endorsed by the incoming Mayor and Council.

On May 29, 2019, she was able to get the City of Vancouver to unanimously pass an amendment to put a gendered intersectional lens on all departments, measured and supported for six years.