From the Streets to City Hall, Putting Our Values to Work

Image: Willie protesting Trump’s original Muslim Ban at Logan Airport

Image: Willie protesting Trump’s original Muslim Ban at Logan Airport

Whether as a writer, union member, or organizer, I’ve always tried to live my values through supporting people-powered movements for social and economic justice. As a councilor, I’ve been able to support our most vulnerable through expanding tenant rights, uplifting the social and economic needs of people of color as well as the LGBTQ+ community, and fighting for material change to enhance the lives of working class folks.

Learn more about me, what I’ve accomplished on the council, and how you can support our movement to create a Somerville for all.

Endorsements

  • Senator Elizabeth Warren

  • Senator Ed Markey

  • image of a Black woman with alopecia on a beige background

    Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley

  • Image of an Asian woman, smiling, with long black hair

    State Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven

  • Image of a smiling white man with glasses, with a red car in the background

    State Rep. Mike Connolly

  • A white man with pink hair looking off into the distance on a green background

    Somerville Councilor JT Scott

  • White man with glasses smiling in front of a blue sky

    Somerville Councilor Ben Ewen-Campen

  • Somerville Councilor Mark Neidergang

  • Medford Councilor Zac Bears

  • Cambridge Councilor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler

  • Cambridge Councilor Quinton Zondervan

  • Bonnie Denis

Sunrise Somerville

Sunrise Somerville

Our Revolution Somerville

Our Revolution Somerville

Somerville YIMBY

Somerville YIMBY

Boston DSA

Boston DSA

Teamsters 122

Teamsters 122

Mass Sierra Club

Mass Sierra Club

LGBTQ Victory Fund

LGBTQ Victory Fund

Run for Something

Run for Something

SEIU 32BJ

SEIU 32BJ

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In keeping with these values, our campaign will reject money from:

  • Fossil fuel executives, lobbyists, or PACs

  • Those working for the carceral state (cops, constables, sheriffs, parole officers, ICE agents, etc)

  • The charter school industry

  • For-profit real estate developers

Instead, we will build this movement with love, sweat equity, and (yes) the donations of everyday people striving to make our city a stronger, safer, more stable place for all. We need your contributions so that we can contact our neighbors in all parts of the community safely: with masks, hand sanitizer, staff, flyers, literature, yard signs, and more. We will invest those funds into making this a fun and inclusive process so that Somervillians will feel the joy of coming together again, even if we are socially-distanced. Thank you for your support! 

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