Chloe Leslie is a renter and proud CUPE member who has spent the last seven years working in food security and helping communities build better public services.

At work, she deals first hand with the reality of inequality and climate change. Vancouver is wasting tons of food while other people go hungry. That’s something City Council can fix. In other parts of the world it is legally required that grocery stores donate unsold food to food banks and charities.

This is something that Chloe knows up close. As Program Manager at Vancouver Food Runners, Chloe coordinated a network of more than 200 local businesses and nonprofit partners to redistribute surplus food across the city. She now works on a collaborative food access initiative in the Downtown Eastside, where her work is grounded in dignity, harm reduction, and community-led leadership.

The values that guide Chloe’s work can be used to fight to make Vancouver a leader on climate, while at the same time, making people’s lives more affordable. She will fight for things like municipal bikeshare programs and community bike repair initatives, tool libraries and repair cafes, and zero-waste food programs that make sure that people don’t go hungry.

Chloe serves on the Strathcona Community Centre Board of Directors and works with BC Green Business to help small businesses reduce pollution. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from UBC and a graduate diploma in Non-Profit Management from SFU. She has volunteered with the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition, the West Side Food Collaborative, the East Side Community Action Project, and North Shore Table Matters, strengthening her commitment to grassroots organizing and cross-neighbourhood solidarity.

Chloe produces educational videos on Vancouver politics on her channel “In the Know with Chlo” - amplifying the working-class values at city hall that COPE is fighting for.

She is running for City Council to fight for people. Her experience, skills, and dedication to social and economic justice will make her a powerful asset to advance COPE’s programme for a Vancouver that is affordable, joyful, and run by the people who live and work here - not the super-rich.