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Alison Lowe, Baroness Lowe of Armley

1964–

United Kingdom

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Alison Natalie Kay Lowe, Baroness Lowe of Armley is a British Labour politician and life peer serving as deputy mayor of West Yorkshire for Policing and Crime. She was the first black woman Leeds city councillor, serving from 1990 to 2019, and has served as the chief executive of Touchstone, a mental health charity based in Leeds, from 2004 to 2021. Lowe won the 2014 Forward Business Woman of the Year award and Stonewall Senior Champion of the Year in 2015.

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