Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand/politics/New MPs/Teall Crossen

Teall Elizabeth Crossen is a New Zealand environmental lawyer, author and politician, she was elected to the New Zealand House of Representatives on 17 October 2020 as a Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand List MP.

Career
Crossen studied law at the University of Canterbury from 1995 to 2000, following which she studied towards a masters in environmental law at Calgary University in Canada.

After graduating she returned to New Zealand, working for the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society in Christchurch, New Zealand. From 2006 to 2013 she worked over seas in Amsterdam and New York. She was later a senior advisor to the New Zealand Minister of Conservation.

Political Career
At the 2017 New Zealand general election she stood for the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand as a candidate for the Rongotai electorate in Wellington, she was also ranked at 16 on the Green party list. She did not win the Rongotai seat, losing to Labour candidate Paul Eagle and the Green party only won enough of the party vote to be entitled to 8 seats in Parliament, meaning she did not enter parliament.

Ahead of the 2020 New Zealand general election she retained her selection as the Green candidate for Rongotai, but moved up four places on the Green party list to 12. She lost again to Eagle, although the Green party won XXX of the party vote and were entitled to XXX of the seats in Parliament, allowing Crossen to enter Parliament as a list MP.

Personal Life
She lives in Berhampore, a suburb of Wellington.