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Elisabeth Arnold

Councillor Elisabeth Arnold
Somerset
[Ward OT6]

Elisabeth Arnold is the City Councillor for Somerset Ward in Centretown Ottawa. First elected in November 1994, she serves as the Chair of the Planning and Economic Development Committee, is a member of the Community Services and Operations Committee, the Advisory Committee on Equity and Diversity and the Environmental Advisory Committee. She is a Member of the Board of Directors of City Living, and a member of the Boards of Directors of the five Business Improvement Areas in Somerset Ward. She sits on the the Women and Girls in Sport Committee and is the Chair of the Winter Walking Committee. Elisabeth is an active participant of several community organizations and neighbourhood committees.

Elisabeth was born in Ottawa in 1959 and attended Lisgar Collegiate. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Geography at Simon Fraser University and a Master's in Urban Planning at Queen's University, where she was a student representative to the Canadian Institute of Planners. From 1979 to 1984, she represented Canada internationally as a member of Canada's National Canoe Team.

She has been involved in the community on both a professional and voluntary basis. From 1986 to 1988 she was the Coordinator of Housing Help, a storefront program which provides information and assistance on housing-related issues. She continued her association with Housing Help both as a board member and a volunteer. Elisabeth is also a founding board member of the Ottawa Vietnamese Non-Profit Residence Corporation.

Elisabeth worked from 1989 to 1992 as Coordinator of the Community Development Program at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre. Her work there was wide-ranging, from helping to set up bursary funds for young artists, to organizing coalitions, to working on issues facing new Canadians such as housing, language, and health. After leaving this position, Elisabeth continued her involvement in community health and social action, both as a volunteer and as a self-employed consultant.

In the 1993 federal election, Elisabeth acted as Affirmative Action Coordinator for Canada's New Democrats. Through this position, she worked to implement the party's affirmative action policy by recruiting, training, and providing support to affirmative action candidates.

Elisabeth has served as vice-chair for the founding board of the Women's Action Centre Against Violence and chaired the Safety Audit Committee. She has also worked with committees studying the housing needs of women and youth in Ottawa.

She has served as Vice-President of the Dalhousie Community Association, as Director of Ottawa-Carleton Housing, Director of Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation, and as Chair of the Young Performers Bursary Fund. As well, she helped organize Friends of the Flats, a local citizen's group that lobbies for community input in the redevelopment of Lebreton Flats.

BUSINESS ADDRESS:

Elisabeth Arnold
111 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 5A1

Telephone: (613) 244-5361
Fax: (613) 244-5371
email: ArnoldE@city.ottawa.on.ca



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