Meet Bronagh
A community-first voice for London.
Bronagh Joyce Morgan is a Londoner, lawyer and legal writer, plain-language educator, working artist, small-business owner, and community volunteer. In 2026 she filed to run for Mayor of London, because she believes this city’s government should be as clear, as honest, and as caring as the people it serves.
Law, made plain
A lawyer since 2000, Bronagh built her career in legal research, writing, and editing: the painstaking work of turning complicated law into words people can actually use. Generations of legal readers have learned from summaries and head-notes she wrote.
Today she works with Wordsmith Communications, a Canadian plain-language firm, teaching municipalities and organisations across the country how to communicate with residents clearly. City bylaws, budgets, and notices shouldn’t need a lawyer to decode. Hers is a career spent proving they don’t have to.
Artist and small-business owner
As the artist behind All the Things by Bronagh, she has put chalk murals on London’s sidewalks, painted murals on its walls, and brought public art to markets and festivals across the city. Her business also creates paid work for other artists and for young people.
For Bronagh, public art isn’t decoration. It’s a city saying out loud that it cares about the people in it.
London, from the inside
A Londoner for twenty-five years, Bronagh spent seventeen of them as a casual employee of the City of London itself. She has served on not-for-profit boards, on board committees in London’s hospital system, and as casual staff for a local school board, alongside years of advocacy for women, children, and people whose voices are rarely in the room when decisions get made. She knows the City’s systems from the boardroom and from the front line, which is exactly where her plan to reform them comes from.
Political experience
Bronagh has run for the Green Party in two federal and two provincial elections between 2003 and 2018. In her very first campaign she said the number one issue in politics was civility, and she has lived it: she remains on good terms with every opponent she has ever run against. Whatever your politics, that’s a record of showing up and taking public service seriously, long before it was her name on the ballot for mayor.
In her own words
“There is no law that I’m afraid of, that I can’t translate, interpret and make easier to understand.”
“We can do hard things.”
From her interview with the Rights and Responsibilities Awareness Initiative, June 2026. Watch the full interview.
What she’d bring to the mayor’s office
A lawyer’s command of the rules. A communicator’s insistence on plain language. An artist’s eye for what makes a city feel alive. And a volunteer’s habit of listening before deciding.
Experience
A career spent making complicated systems make sense to people: in law, in plain-language education, in small business, and in community service. Here is the track record, plainly.
Lawyer since 2000
Called to the bar in 2000, then a career in legal research, writing, and editing across every area of Canadian law, including the summaries and head-notes a generation of lawyers learned the law from. Twenty-six years spent making complicated rules understandable.
Plain-language teacher, Wordsmith Communications
Legal Instructor and Editor (LLB) with Wordsmith Communications, a Canadian plain-language firm. She delivers plain-language workshops for municipalities, companies, and lawyers, and helps organisations rewrite dense documents, like bylaws, into language people can actually understand.
Seventeen years inside the City of London
A casual employee of the City of London for seventeen years, alongside service on not-for-profit boards, board committees in London's hospital system, and casual work for a local school board. She has seen how the City's systems work from the inside, at street level.
Small-business owner, in the arts
Runs “All the Things by Bronagh”, an art business that creates paid work for other artists and young people, and a member of the London Chamber of Commerce. Payroll, clients, and public commissions: the everyday economics most of London's small businesses live with.
Community and advocacy
Decades of volunteering in and around the health system, and advocacy for women, children, and people without a strong voice in the room. Thirty years a Londoner.
Four Green Party campaigns
Ran for the Green Party in two federal and two provincial elections between 2003 and 2018. Whatever you think of the party, that's twenty years of showing up, debating civilly, and staying on good terms with every opponent since.
Showing up, in person
And yes, the art
Much of it is public work in shared spaces, made through a small business that creates paid work for other artists and young people. That’s the part that matters for City Hall.
Four Seasons, exterior wall mural. 
“Be Iconic. Be You.”, sidewalk chalk. 
Cardinal, coloured pencil.