Jane Smith

Jane Smith is deputy leader at the Animal Welfare Party, and the UK’s first-ever elected animal rights councillor. In 2019 she successfully defended her seat in Alsager (Cheshire), beating all the Labour and Conservative candidates. A graduate of Angers University (France) with postgraduate degrees from Loughborough and Manchester universities, Jane is also a published author on animals and the environment whose work has most recently been short-listed for the Future Places Prize for Environmental Literature (2021) and the Van der Mey Non-Fiction Prize (2022). Jane lives in Cheshire with her family of people and rescue dogs.

You can learn more about Jane and see her work on her website, janecsmith.com. You can also follow her on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.