Peggy Nash is the author of Women Winning Office: An Activist’s Guide to Getting Elected, encouraging those who are often excluded, to consider running for office. She continues this work as the co-instructor of the Toronto Metropolitan University Women in the House Program.

Nash is a former Member of Parliament holding official opposition portfolios in finance and industry and was a federal NDP leadership candidate. A former senior negotiator with CAW (now Unifor) in the automobile, airline and service sectors, she was the first labour woman to lead auto bargaining in North America. She also pioneered the labour women’s leadership training and equity policies. Nash was named to the Order of Canada, holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Brock University, and is a YWCA Woman of Distinction.