Kathryn Holloway
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Kathryn (Kate) Holloway (born October 18, 1968 in Montreal, Quebec) 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.
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[edit] Background
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.[1]
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.[1]
In 2003 she was a regular columnist for Relix Magazine[2], 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.
She is unmarried, and is mother to Samuel Wright, born November 22, 1990.
[edit] NGO work
In 2004 she founded Element Village an NGO whose objects are to stimulate, fund and support sustainable urban cooperative and community projects.
She participated with the Civic Efficiency Group, on a submission on infrastructural capital to Canadian Finance Minister [[Ralph Goodale]'s 2005 Green Budget Coalition advocating sustainable, modular, green urban planning.
She was a delegate at the UNEP Sustainable Energy Finance Roundtable in New York in October 2005, and was an accredited NGO observer to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal in December 2005. There, she lobbied to ensure that the World Mayors and Municipal Leaders Declaration on Climate Change would include wording protecting women, youth and communities. Working with Councillors Elio Di Iorio of Richmond Hill and Erin Shapero of the Markham, she argued for inclusion in the Declaration of
- calls for reform in how the IMF and the World Bank measure productivity
- endorsement of the emissions reduction targets set by the 2005 International Youth Declaration
- increased partnership between municipalities and NGOs and community organizations
[edit] Green Party of Canada
Holloway was an Ontario organizer for the Green Party of Canada (GPC) during the 2004 election. She also ran as a candidate in that election against incumbent Liberal Derek Lee and independent candidate Raymond Cho in the riding of Scarborough-Rouge River. [3]
With Hayley Easto, she founded the Women's Caucus and the Green High Riding School, a candidate organizing school assisting local candidates and riding associations with fundraising, policy development, and organizing.[4]
In 2004, The Green Party achieved a strategic electoral breakthrough that won them millions of dollars in federal funding for the first time. In August of 2004 Holloway was elected to the party's national executive (GPC Council) as Fundraising Chair with 91% of the vote, and sat on three financial Committees of Council. [5]
In January, 2005, Green Party of Canada leader Jim Harris called for an in camera session and moved a motion to remove Kathryn Holloway from the GPC council, resulting in Holloway's suspension. No reason was provided to her, and she was refused a copy of the meeting minutes, although she requested that they published to the membership. [6] She subsequently published minutes herself showing her objection to a suggested incorporation of the party's finances (the GPC Fund) that she alleged left them out of the Party's control. [7]. In June 2005, Holloway was nominated by unanimous vote as the candidate for the GPC for the riding of Toronto Centre. However, her nomination was suddenly blocked without explanation by party organizers. Stating frustration, Holloway resigned from the Green Party Council and from her Toronto Centre nomination. Within the next week several other prominent national executive members and candidates followed suit, accusing Harris of mismanaging the Party. [8].
Holloway returned to active participation in the GPC in 2006 as a key supporter of Elizabeth May's leadership run, hosting a Toronto meet-and-greet for May.[9] On August 27, 2006, Holloway was elected again to GPC Council as Chief Agent, with 69% of the vote. In October 2006, under May's leadership, the GPC fully rescinded Holloway's 2005 suspension and all other previous sanctions against former GPC Federal Councillors.
On December 8, 2006, Holloway resigned from the Green Party of Canada to join the Liberal Party of Canada.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Candidate Profile - Scarbourough Greens" "
- ^ "Life Between The Lines" Relix Magazine, Katie Holloway, Archives, 2003
- ^ "Candidate information for riding: Scarborough-Rouge River", The Globe And Mail, June 29, 2004
- ^ "GREEN HIGH RIDING SCHOOL - November 19-21, Dufferin ON", Green Party of Ontario, Nov. 9, 2004
- ^ "DRAFT MINUTES of The Ninth General Meeting National Convention", Green Party of Canada, Aug.29, 2004
- ^ "Green Party Ombuds Committee Report and Recommendations" Party Ombuds on Procedure of Suspension, Mar 5, 2005
- ^ "Incorporation Committee Timeline
- ^ "Green Party Profile" The National,CBC Television. Interview, Leslie Mackinnon, producer. Aired Dec. 13, 2005
- ^ http://www.planetfriendly.net/calendar/item.php?id=4799"Trinity Spadina Meet and Greet" May 11 2006
