Leanne Wood AM

Leanne Wood

Leanne Wood lives in Penygraig in the Rhondda. She is a former Probation Officer, Women's Aid support worker, tutor at Cardiff University and local councillor in Rhondda Cynon Taf.

She was first elected to the Assembly in May 2003 and has been Plaid Cymru's spokesperson on the Environment and Sustainability and Social Justice. She is now Plaid Cymru's spokesperson for Housing & Regeneration. Leanne's political interests include the environment; poverty, unemployment and social justice; issues affecting women and young people; international politics and the anti-war movement; and criminal justice. She is chair of the all-party PCS Union group in the Assembly and chair of the board of trustees at Cwm Cynon Women's Aid. She is committed to working for Wales to become a self-governing decentralist socialist republic

Pamphlets:

Making Our Communities Safer, 2008
A Greenprint for the Valleys, 2011

Website:

http://www.leannewood.plaidcymru.org/

Leanne on Facebook: http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Leanne-Wood/613235070

Affiliations:

Member of UNISON

Associate Member of the National Association of Probation Officers.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Amnesty International

Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg

CAMRA