Katie Dawson: Islington Council

In May 2006, Katie Dawson became the first Green elected to Islington Council, representing Highbury West ward.

A mother of three (her third child, Abel, was born just weeks before the election campaign!) Katie works for a local publishing company and has lived in Highbury for many years. Being a lone Green councillor, she is denied the full-time administrative support provided to the other big parties, but has still made a huge impact in her first term as councillor. Katie’s particular interests are the impact of the Emirates Stadium in Highbury residents and sustainable housing development, but she has been responsible for initiating some ground-breaking legislation in the borough on a range of issues, including:

• parking charges being linked to vehicle emissions
• a 20mph limit across Islington’s residential roads
• a policy of no net loss of permeable surface area in planning developments to reduce flooding

Katie pushed through a raft of Green measures in the February 2009 council budget, and in May was elected Chair of the Council East Area Committee

Katie holds a ward surgery on the second Monday of every month from 6.30pm to 8pm at the N4 Library on Blackstock Rd.

Read more about Katie’s work as councillor

Darren Johnson: London Assembly Member

Joining the Green Party in 1987 at the age of 20, Darren has played a very active role in Green politics over the past two decades and is now one of the party’s best-known figures.

Darren has a clear track record of winning elections, having been elected to the London Assembly in May 2000 and re-elected in 2004 and 2008, as well as being the first Green to take a seat on Lewisham Council in May 2002.

Read more about Darren Johnson

Jenny Jones: London Assembly Member

Jenny was formerly Deputy Mayor of London, and is a Member of the London Assembly (re-elected with Darren in 2008) and a councillor in Southwark. She has taken a keen interest in issues in Islington, and led the campaign in the assembly against redevelopment of the Sobell Centre in 2009.

Read more about Jenny Jones

Jean Lambert: MEP

Jean Lambert is the Green Party Euro-MP for London, and Vice President of the Green/EFA Group in the European Parliament.  She was re-elected to the parliament in the 2009 Euro elections.

www.jeanlambertmep.org.uk