Elizabeth May

Elizabeth Evans May is a Canadian politician, environmentalist, author, activist, and lawyer who is serving as the leader of the Green Party of Canada since 2022, and previously served as the leader from 2006 to 2019. She has been the member of Parliament for Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011. May is the longest serving female leader of a Canadian federal party. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, May immigrated to Canada with her family as a teenager. She attended St. Francis Xavier University in rural Nova Scotia, graduated from Dalhousie University in Halifax with a law degree in 1983, and later studied theology at Saint Paul University in Ottawa for which she told the Anglican Journal in a 2013 interview that she had to withdraw from the program due to conflicting schedule demands.