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Amanda Lind
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Amanda Sofia Margareta Lind (née Johansson; born 2 August 1980) is a Swedish politician and psychologist serving since 2024 as co-spokesperson of the Green Party.[1] Between 2019 and 2021, she served as Minister for Culture and Democracy, with responsibility for sport and national minorities in the second Löfven cabinet.[2]
Key Information
Early life and education
[edit]From the age of three, Lind grew up in Luleå where her father Erik Hugo Johansson was a pastor and her mother Eva Bask Johansson was a pharmacist.[3] Having studied at Umeå University, she received her master's degree in psychology in 2009.
Career
[edit]Lind became a member of Miljöpartiet de gröna, the Swedish Green Party, in 1999[2] and was a member of the Umeå municipal council from 2002 to 2004.
Lind worked as a child and adolescent psychologist for Västernorrland County council from 2009 to 2011. In 2010, she was appointed spokesperson for the Härnösand social affairs agency and in 2012 as spokesperson for Västernorrland.
Between 2011 and 2014, she chaired the social affairs committee in the municipality of Härnösand with responsibility for cultural, environmental, planning and recreational issues.[4] Lind was municipal councillor and first vice-chair of the municipal council in Härnösand from 2014 to 2018. She became the Green Party secretary in 2016, succeeding Anders Wallner.[5] In January 2019, she became the Swedish Minister for Culture and Democracy, with responsibility also for sport and national minorities. In November 2021, when the Green Party left the government, she was succeeded as minister by Jeanette Gustafsdotter.
On 28 April 2024, Lind was elected to as the co-spokesperson of the Green Party, succeeding Märta Stenevi.[1]
Controversy
[edit]In 2019, the Chinese ambassador to Sweden Gui Congyou threatened Lind with a ban on entering his country when she attended Svenska PEN’s Tucholsky Prize ceremony in honor of Gui Minhai, a book publisher detained in China.[6]
In 2021, Lind as the Swedish culture minister stated that Elfdalian would remain judged as a dialect by the Swedish government, after an inquiry by Swedish MP Peter Helander as to why the government hadn't investigated whether Elfdalian should be classified as a language, as the Council of Europe had proposed.[7]
Personal life
[edit]Lind is married to filmmaker Björn Ola Lind. The couple have three children together.[2] In her spare time she devotes herself to historical re-creation, tennis and handicrafts.
Lind and the Esperanto language
[edit]Lind speaks Esperanto[citation needed] and addressed the 104th World Esperanto Congress in fluent Esperanto. The Congress took place in Lahti, Finland from 20 to 27 July 2019. Here is the Esperanto message, with an English translation on the right:
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“Saluton, estimataj kongresanoj! “Mi estas Amanda Lind, sveda ministro pri kulturo, demokratio, sporto kaj naciaj minoritatoj. Kiel ano de Miljöpartiet (la sveda verda partio) kaj la tutmonda verda movado, kaj vivanta naturo kaj floranta kulturo estas valoroj tre proksimaj al mia koro. “Elkorajn bondezirojn mi sendas al la Universala kongreso. Renkontiĝoj kaj babilado inter homoj estas fundamento por vigla demokrata evoluo. Dankon al vi ĉiuj en la Esperanto-movado pro viaj kontribuoj por instigi komunikadon trans lingvaj kaj naciaj limoj. Ni estu unu homaro sur ĉi-unu terglobo! “Amike.” |
“Hello, esteemed congress delegates! “I am Amanda Lind, Swedish Minister for Culture, Democracy, Sport and National Minorities. As a member of the Miljöpartiet (the Swedish Green Party) and the global Green movement, both living nature and flowering culture are values very close to my heart. “I am delighted to send out my cordial good wishes to the World Congress. Meetings and conversations among people are the foundation for vibrant democratic development. Thank you all in the Esperanto movement for your contributions to encourage communication across language and national borders. Let's be one humanity on this one globe! “In friendship.”[8] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b Carlén, Linnea (28 April 2024). "Miljöpartiet har valt Amanda Lind till nytt kvinnligt språkrör". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 15 December 2024.
- ^ a b c "Amanda Lind (MP) blir ny kulturminister" [Amanda Lind (MP) becomes the new Minister of Culture]. Dagens Nyheter [The News of the Day] (in Swedish). 21 January 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ Krisen får inte definiera oss ("The crisis will not define us"), 13 May 2016, Dagens Arena. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
- ^ Sveriges nya kulturminister Amanda Lind (MP) brinner för frågorna: ‘Jag är resultatinriktad’ ("Sweden’s new Culture Minister Amanda Lind is afire with questions: ‘I am results-oriented”.”), 21 January 2019, Sundsvalls Tidning. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ^ {{Cite radio Amanda Lind valdes till partisekreterare för Miljöpartiet (“Amanda Lind elected party secretary for Green Party"), 15 May 2016, Sveriges Radio. Retrieved 29 July 2019.}}
- ^ Simon Johnson, Johan Ahlander and Cate Cadell (15 November 2019), China, Sweden escalate war of words over support for detained bookseller Reuters.
- ^ Catherine, Edwards. "Why a Swedish politician is demanding the right to speak an ancient 'forest language' in parliament". The Local. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
- ^ "Daily journal of the 104th World Esperanto Congress" (PDF). Retrieved 28 July 2019.
External links
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Media related to Amanda Lind at Wikimedia Commons- The film of her short talk in Esperanto
