Elizabeth May was a keynote speaker in our Politics of Inequality series in 2015 and moderated a discussion with Bill McKibben as part of the America and the Climate Crisis series in 2019 at UBC.
Elizabeth May is a Canadian politician who served as leader of the Green Party of Canada from 2006 to 2019 and Member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands in southern Vancouver Island since 2011.
Elizabeth is an environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer, who has a long record as a dedicated advocate — for social justice, for the environment, for human rights, and for pragmatic economic solutions.