Fight the oligarchs, fund our future.
Come meet BC Greens leadership candidate Emily Lowan.
Emily Lowan plans to fight the oligarchs and fund our future - and she is running to be the leader of the BC Green Party. Her agenda focuses on affordability, corporate accountability, climate action, Indigenous rights, and social wellbeing.
View Lowan’s platform here.
This campaign and its focus on building social movements and taking on the billionaire class has echoes of Sean Orr and Zohran Mamdani's recent successful electoral insurgencies, and we wanted to make time for our membership and supporters of DSOV to hear directly from Emily Lowan before the upcoming deadline for new members to join the BC Greens and be eligible to vote for the new leader.
Emily Lowan (she/her) is a 24-year-old renter, organizer, and advocate for climate justice and Indigenous solidarity whose work is grounded in socialist principles and a determination to challenge corporate power.
From Victoria, BC, on the traditional territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, she has spent the past decade resisting the corporate forces that undermine democracy and exploit both people and the planet.
Her experience includes leading campaigns, conducting investigative research, and building coalitions that prioritize collective action over corporate interests. At Climate Action Network Canada, she works with 180 civil society organizations to halt fossil fuel expansion and advance renewable energy. Her work with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Corporate Mapping Project focused on exposing the ties between industry and government while training grassroots groups in research and strategy. As UVic Student Union Director of Campaigns, she led a successful fossil fuel divestment campaign driven by student organizing.
Targeted by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s multi-million dollar attack campaign during federal emissions cap advocacy, Lowan has faced the fossil fuel lobby directly and continues to resist its influence.
Central to Lowan’s work is decolonization and Indigenous-led resistance supported by settler solidarity, demonstrated through her collaborations with Indigenous nations on environmental impact assessments, pipeline research, and economic risk analyses for LNG projects.
Lowan’s commitment to climate action, democracy, and Indigenous solidarity reflects a socialist approach rooted in collective power and structural change, which she intends to bring to leadership in the BC Green Party.
An open forum and Q&A hosted by DSOV. Monday, August 4, 7:30 pm.
Register here: https://tinyurl.com/DSOVforum
Emily Lowan
emilyforbcgreens.ca