Name Jean Swanson | ||
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Awards Agatha Award for Best Non-Fiction, Macavity Awards for Best Critical/Biographical Mystery Work Nominations Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical Books Poor‑bashing: The Politics of Exclusi, By a Woman's Hand: A, Killer Books: A Reader's, The Dick Francis Companion | ||
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Jean Swanson CM, is an anti-poverty activist living and working in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Jean Swanson is a coordinator of Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP), an organization dedicated to the welfare of the Downtown Eastside, one of Canada's poorest neighbourhoods. She believes that "The way to 'revitalize' (the) community would be to restore purchasing power to the low-income residents who live (there): Raise welfare rates, end the barriers to getting on welfare and boost the minimum wage."
Swanson also founded and works with the group End Legislated Poverty, a British Columbia coalition with stated aims to "educate and organize in order to make governments reduce and end poverty".
In the 1980s, Swanson worked with the BC Solidarity Coalition, as well as Vancouver's Downtown Eastside Residents Association (DERA).
She was also previous national chair of the National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO), and was also the recipient of the 2007 Carleton University's Kroeger College Award for Citizenship and Community Affairs, an award recognizing "creativity, persistence, and overall leadership in demonstrating the value of a locally based initiative." Swanson was chosen for the award "for her tireless work against poverty in Canada. (She) is a private individual living in Vancouver who the jury concluded best represented the qualities of commitment, leadership, and community ties."
Swanson is also the author of Poor Bashing: The Politics of Exclusion.
In 2016, she was appointed into the Order of Canada with the grade of member, one of Canada's highest civilian honours.
Currently a [url=http://votejeanswanson.ca] Vancouver City Council Candidate in the Municipal By-Election scheduled for October 14 2017.