Her mother is from Nevis and her father from Dominica. Paul is the older sister of Canadian actress Ngozi Paul, twin sister to Luther, and is married to international human rights lawyer Mark Freeman. She was called to the bar in Ontario in 1998. She attended high school at Toronto's Runnymede Collegiate Institute and holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Ottawa and a Master of Public Affairs degree from Princeton University. Paul started her involvement with politics early, working as a page in the Ontario Legislature at age 12, and later as a page at the Canadian Senate, and as a non-partisan Ontario Legislature intern with the Ontario Legislature Internship Programme (OLIP), she was placed in a Progressive Conservative and later Liberal office in 1996. 4.1.3 Accusations of racism, sexism, and antisemitism.4.1.1 Noah Zatzman statement and subsequent MP floor crossing.4 Leadership of the Green Party of Canada (2020–2021).

After the election, she announced her pending resignation as party leader on September 27, 2021. In the 2021 Canadian federal election, the Greens under Paul maintained two seats but Paul was defeated for the third time in her riding of Toronto Centre where she placed fourth. In June 2021, controversy emerged over Paul's leadership after the floor crossing of Green MP Jenica Atwin.

Paul decided to run in Toronto Centre again, but again lost that election to Ien. She was defeated by Liberal nominee Marci Ien, making her the only federal party leader who is not an MP, but whose party has representation in the House of Commons. Paul ran in the 2020 Toronto Centre federal by-election on October 26, 2020, which was called following the resignation of Bill Morneau. Paul won the 2020 Green Party of Canada leadership election to replace Elizabeth May. She was defeated as a candidate for Toronto Centre in the 2019 Canadian federal election. She is co-founder of the Barcelona International Public Policy Hub (BIPP HUB). Paul was the founder and executive director of the Canadian Centre for Political Leadership from 2001 to 2005 and has worked in civic engagement and international affairs positions, including in political affairs in Canada's Mission to the European Union and in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. She is the first Black Canadian and first Jewish woman to be elected leader of a federal party in Canada. Annamie Paul (born November 3, 1972) is a Canadian politician, activist and lawyer who is the leader of the Green Party of Canada since 2020.

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