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The Womens Environmental Alliance Organizing team is the following group of green gals!..



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Natalie Helferty

 Natalie is an ecologist that is a 'big picture' wholistic thinker. She is involved in land protection, as well as reform of our current 'egonomic' system into one where spiritual ecology is the basis for our economy. She ran for municipal council in Richmond Hill in 2006 under the banner "The Natural Choice".

Coming from a background in amphibian ecology, Oak Ridges Moraine protection, promotion of the NOAH Project and climate change adaptation, Natalie is now offering her expertise in Eco System planning to adapt to climate change and peak oil realities. She sat on the Greenbelt Task Force and taught Applied Ecology at Ryerson University after having worked at numerous provincial and municipal agencies.
Kate Holloway
 Kate Holloway is a Canadian political activist and entrepreneur, best known for her work in the Green Party of Canada, and for her work with the NGO Element Village.

Holloway is a co-founder of renewable energy startup Village Technologies Inc.
Prior to her private and public sector work in energy conservation, she held senior executive positions in both the high-tech and advertising worlds, as a director for Boston-based CMGI, and a Vice-President at MBS Ltd. of the Grey Global Group. For two years she was also featured on The Discovery Channel as an Internet journalist on the segment "Kate's Page", which she wrote and performed.
She is the sister of comedienne and radio personality Maureen Holloway, and the first cousin of Irish Zapatista economist John Holloway. She holds two degrees from the University of Toronto, one in Celtic Studies and the other, an MBA in Finance from the Rotman School of Management.
In 2003 she was a regular columnist for Relix Magazine writing about music and culture. In 2004, she was a regular contributor to Building and Construction Trades Today, writing pieces on architectural conversions of Toronto heritage buildings.
Erin Shapero
 Erin Shapero is a city councillor in the Town of Markham and represents the constituency of Ward 2 Thornhill. She was first elected to council in the 2000 municipal elections at age 25 and ran on a green anti-sprawl platform, focusing on the protection of the Town's natural features and sensitive environmental areas including the Don and Rouge Watersheds, the Oak Ridges Moraine as well as the protection of Markham's remaining farming communities.

Erin is Chair of the Town’s Environmental Issues Committee, Clean Air Committee and Pesticide Reduction Committee, and Co-Chairs Markham’s Kyoto Task force, and is active in numerous other initiatives. She currently sits as a member of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)Standing Committee on Increasing Women's participation in municipal government, the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee and the International Relations Committee.
Wendy Thomson

Born in Scotland, Wendy holds a BSc Honours in Physics and MSc in Natural Resource Management. She worked as an ecologist for various Welsh environmental quango's and then emigrated to Canada in the late nineties.Since then she has performed numerous positions with the Conservation Council of Ontario, Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists (CSEB), and Society of Conservation Biology as well as being employed in marketing by Xerox Canada since 1999.

Wendy is currently Editor in Chief/Publisher of ElectricGreen Environmental News, GTA Chair of the CSEB and Treasurer of the Public Spaces Appreciation Association of Ontario.

 

 
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