Jo Clay (born 1977) is an Australian politician currently serving as a member of the

Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory, known in short as the ACT Legislative Assembly, is the unicameral legislature of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It sits in the Legislative Assembly Building, Canberra, Leg ...

for

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and the deputy leader of the

ACT Greens The ACT Greens is a green politics, green political party located in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), and a member of the federation of the Australian Greens. Both parties were formed in 1992, three years after the ACT achieved self-gover ...

. Clay grew up in

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and attended

Radford College Radford College is an independent school, Anglican, coeducational day school, located in Bruce, Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Founded in 1984, the college is named after Bishop Lewis Bostock Radford. It has a non-selective enrolmen ...

in Canberra. She then studied law before working in various companies focused on improving the environment, including setting up Send and Shred, a company that recycles shredded documents, and The Carbon Diet about reducing her

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. At the

2020 Australian Capital Territory election The 2020 Australian Capital Territory election was held on 17 October 2020 to elect all 25 members of the unicameral ACT Legislative Assembly. The incumbent Labor-Greens coalition government, led by Chief Minister Andrew Barr, defeated the op ...

Clay won one of the five seats in

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1977 births Living people Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly 21st-century Australian politicians Women members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Australian Greens members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly 21st-century Australian women politicians People educated at Radford College Politicians from Canberra {{AustralianGreens-politician-stub