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Mojo Celeste Mathers (née Minrod, born 23 November 1966) is a New Zealand politician and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives. She became known through her involvement with the Malvern Hills Protection Society and helped prevent the Central Plains Water Trust's proposal to build a large irrigation dam in Coalgate. She has been a senior policy advisor to the Green Party since 2006 and has stood for the party in the last three general elections. Her candidacy for the created significant media interest due to her high placing on the Green Party's list. Mathers was elected to the 50th term of Parliament, becoming the country's first deaf Member of Parliament.〔 ==Private life== Mathers was born in London, UK in 1966.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.greens.org.nz/candidates/mojo-mathers )〕 Her parents named her after the Muddy Waters' 1957 version of the song "Got My Mojo Working". She herself has three children.〔 In her personal life, she "strive() to reduce () personal impact on the environment by being vegetarian, supporting GE free, non-toxic, organic, fair trade and local, () using public transport".〔 Mathers "was born profoundly deaf after oxygen was cut to her as newborn baby during a difficult birth". She is not, however, mute, and is a lipreader. She only began to make significant use of Sign Language in the late 2000s (saying she had "found it very useful for some situations"), preferring to lipread and communicate orally before that.〔〔("Mojo Mathers – Generation Zero's Elect Who?" ), Generation Zero, 10 November 2011〕 Her grandfather was the renowned legal philosopher H. L. A. Hart. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mojo Mathers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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