Jessica Bell | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MPP |
Office1: | Critic, Housing |
Term Start1: | July 13, 2022 |
Leader1: | Marit Stiles |
Office2: | Critic, Transit |
Term Start2: | August 23, 2018 |
Term End2: | June 2, 2022 |
Leader2: | Andrea Horwath |
Parliament3: | Ontario Provincial |
Term Start3: | June 7, 2018 |
Predecessor3: | Constituency established |
Riding3: | University—Rosedale |
Party: | New Democratic |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Residence: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Occupation: | Politician, community organizer |
Jessica Bell is a Canadian politician who has represented University—Rosedale in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 2018, as a member of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP).
Bell is the Opposition Transit Critic in the legislature. Prior to being elected, she was the founding executive director of TTCriders, an advocacy group campaigning for improvements to the Toronto Transit Commission. She has a long history of community organizing and grassroots activism.
Bell has also been a lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University, and director of the California Food & Justice Coalition.[1]
In 2018, Bell was named the Ontario NDP's critic for transit. After the 2022 Ontario general election her critic portfolio changed to housing.[2]