Experience
People know me as an artist. That’s true, and it’s a small part of it. Here’s the fuller picture: a lot of capable, useful roles, all in one person. That range is exactly what running a city takes.
Lawyer, then legal writer and editor
Trained and practised as a corporate lawyer. After being pushed out of corporate law by harassment, built a career as a legal writer, editor, and legal translator: roughly two decades of legal research, writing, and editing, including the summaries and head-notes that lawyers who came up in the 2000s and early 2010s learned the law from. A career spent making complicated rules understandable.
Plain-language teacher, Wordsmith Communications
Legal Instructor and Editor (LLB) with Wordsmith Communications, a Canadian plain-language firm. Her work involves teaching and editing, helping organisations rewrite dense documents, like bylaws, into language people can actually understand.
Artist and arts-business owner
Runs “All the Things by Bronagh”, an art business that finds work for other artists and for young people. A working member of London's arts community, not just someone who makes art.
Community and advocacy
Years of community involvement, including work in and around the health system, and advocacy for women, children, and people without a strong voice in the room.
Repeat Green Party candidate
Has run as a Green Party candidate before. Whatever you think of the party, that's a record of showing up and taking it seriously.
Single parent and family carer
Raised her children as a single parent. Cared for aging, ill parents at the same time, after losing her daughter. A “sandwich” carer who has kept a household running, the lights on, the rent paid, and people alive, all at once, on not much money.
“To run a billion-dollar budget for a city, you give that job to somebody who is used to doing a million things very well. Keeping people alive, keeping the lights on, the rent paid, food on the table. That’s who single parents are. That’s what I’ve been doing the whole time.”