Anna Lo was born in Hong Kong in 1950 and moved to Belfast in 1974. An Alliance Party politician, she was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for Belfast South in the 2007 Assembly electon. She was the first ethnic-minority politician elected at a regional level in Northern Ireland, and the first politician born in East Asia elected to any legislative body in the United Kingdom. Lo is also a social worker and former chairperson of the Northern Ireland Chinese Welfare Association. In 1978, she started the first-ever English language evening class for Chinese people in Northern Ireland in a further education college. Anna was awarded an MBE in 1999 for Services to Ethnic Minorities.
Lo’s accounts of getting to grips with a new language and culture
are fascinating … but how lucky for Northern Ireland that
circumstances prompted this tenacious and talented woman to make it
her home.
*Heather Ferguson*
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