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Democratic Candidate for Cambridge City Council
Margaret Scarsdale
Margaret Scarsdale is the State Representative for the 1st Middlesex District, representing Ashby, Dunstable, Groton, Lunenburg, Pepperell, and Townsend. Prior to her role in the state legislature, Margaret served as Chair of the Pepperell Select Board. Fueled by a passion for community and economic development, Margaret has worked hard to advance policies and programs that support the small towns in the First Middlesex District, with a focus on building and sustaining vibrant communities.
Margaret came from humble beginnings, the product of a home that struggled with mental health and economic issues, Margaret dropped out of high school to join the workforce as a teenager. She struggled to move up in life, eventually earning a Bachelor of Arts from UMass Lowell and becoming a middle school teacher. She’s been active in many local fights for a clean and healthy environment. Margaret ss committed to dismantling socioeconomic barriers to success and ensuring that everyone has an equitable opportunity to pursue their dreams and goals.
Gary Christenson
Gary Christenson is a lifelong public servant and advocate for Malden. He was led to service by his deep desire to be helpful to the residents of Malden and uses his position as Mayor as an opportunity to move the city forward. For over twenty years, Mayor Christenson has been working to improve Malden by making City Hall accessible and welcoming for all people in the community. Gary’s long history of service means he approaches every problem by listening to the concerns and needs of the residents and engaging the community in a collaborative process. No problem is too big or too small. Mayor Christenson’s compassionate and communicative approach has driven transformative results for Malden.
Amanda Linehan
Amanda Linehan is serving her third term as the Malden City Councillor for Ward 3, where she has a strong track record of fighting for—and delivering —affordable housing, safer streets, inclusive community events that bring people together, and a transparent government that works well for everyone. Amanda is a working mom, a homeowner, and a proud progressive voice on the City Council.
Professionally, Amanda started as a journalist, and then joined the Metropolitan Area Planning Council as Communications Director. She has served on many community boards, including the Malden Redevelopment Authority, Asian Community Development Corporation, Forestdale Community Church, and was a founding member of the Malden Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Walkability.
Will Mbah
Will decided to run for Somerville City Council in 2017 - and he won.
On the Somerville City Council, Will used his position to advocate for Somerville’s most marginalized communities. He led the effort to create the Office of Housing Stability, an office dedicated to preventing the involuntary displacement of Somerville residents who are in the process of eviction or are at risk of losing their housing. Having experienced the discriminatory practice of racial profiling firsthand, Will worked to eliminate its use by the Somerville Police Department.
Will has worked to make Somerville a more equitable and just city, and he knows that change is not happening fast enough for every Somerville resident. That’s why, after four years on the city council, he ran for mayor in 2021, hoping to accelerate Somerville’s progress on housing, environmental, and racial justice. Despite years of work, developers and special interests from outside our community still have more of a seat at a table than our most marginalized and vulnerable Somerville neighbors.
Will works for the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection as an Environmental Analyst and lives in West Somerville with his wife Christelle, and his two children, Joel and Grace.
Danielle Spang
Danielle Spang is the City Councilor for Beverly’s Ward 2. She’s an attorney, a homeowner, mom, wife. Danielle is deeply committed to the community, and has been volunteering her time as the Secretary of the Ward 2 Civic Association, member of the Community Preservation Committee, Vice Chair of the Harbor Management Authority, and Secretary of the Cove School PTO.
Rena Getz
Rena Getz Escudero is the City Councilor At-Large for Newton’s Ward 5. She’s been a collaborative community leader in Newton for over a decade, most recently serving as the elected President of the Waban Area Council. She’s dedicated her time and energy to the community through her volunteer work with the Friends of Hemlock Gorge Board, and advocating for historic education and stewardship throughout the city. Rena’s background as a neuroscientist gives her a unique data-driven perspective to inform her policy-making for Newton.
Yonnie Collins
Yonnie Collins is a practicing nurse and a passionate advocate for public education who represents Ward 6 on the Haverhill School Committee. She is the first Black person elected to the Haverhill School Committee.
Yonnie cares deeply about whole student wellness and making sure that educators have the resources they need to provide a safe and effective learning environment. Yonnie believes that these supports should come from an evidence-based assessment of current and potential school programs.She is a graduate of the Haverhill Public School System and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and has been deeply connected to the community that the school district serves.
Anna Hueston
Anna Hueston is an elected member of the Littleton Planning board and an advocate for children and families. Anna has been an instrumental partner on the Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave campaign. Prior to moving to Massachusetts in 2016, Anna spent several years working directly for Colorado legislators on policy issues for children, families, and people with disabilities. Her policy work was inspired by the families at the early childhood center she founded in 2005, which still continues to serve over one hundred families each year.
Anna also has nearly two decades in experience in corporate strategy and marketing with both large corporate and small start-up organizations. She holds two master degrees; an MBA from Columbia University and an MA in Education from the University of Denver. Anna is also the Secretary for the Rotary Club of Littleton and as an appointed member of the Littleton Master Plan Implementation Committee.
Leela Ramachandran
Leela Ramachandran is a passionate advocate for public education and an elected member of the Acton-Boxborough School District. Leela cares deeply about the health and well-being of our students and making sure our educators have the resources they need to provide a safe and effective learning environment. She is a graduate of the Acton-Boxborough school system and has been involved in the School Committee and mentoring students since graduating. Leela graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in Public Health and a certificate in Civic Engagement and Public Service.
Dr. John H. Kleschinsky
Dr. John H. Kleschinsky is a researcher, health policy analyst, and advocate for public education and the prevention of addiction, and an elected member of the Billerica School Committee. John earned a doctorate in public health from Boston University. John has served the residents of Billerica as a Town Meeting member and a member of the Billerica Finance Committee, where he has supported tuition-free kindergarten and long-term investment in the public schools. He is a founding member of Building Billerica’s Future, which successfully advocated for a new High School. John and his wife, Melissa, live in North Billerica with their daughter, their two forever dogs, and sometimes several foster dogs.
Karen Morrison
Karen Morrison is a a member of the Littleton Select Board and small business owner. She's a homeowner and mom to three school-age kids in our public schools. She is a collaborative problem-solver who brings her positive, professional, and fair attitude to address the town’s challenges objectively and strategically.
Judy Pineda Neufeld
Judy Pineda Neufeld is the City Councilor for Somerville’s Ward 7. She moved to Somervill over twenty years ago to attend Tufts University. She is the proud daughter of immigrants, and got her work ethic and resourcefulness from them. She graduated cum laude from Tufts University, and completed her MBA with honors at Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business, with a certification in Leadership Development. Her first job out of college was as a community organizer, and now takes her organizing skills into her day-to-day work as leadership development consultant for nonprofits and other mission-driven organizations. She has spent over a decade promoting women’s leadership across national organizations. She lives in Somerville with her husband, Mark, and their cat, Pumpkin. Judy is also an accomplished runner, having finished the Boston Marathon in 2018, as well as several 5 and 10k races and half marathons.
Stephen Fishman
Stephen Fishman is a devoted father and husband, an elected Town Meeting member, and a successful businessman. He was the 2022 Democratic nominee for State Representative for the 11th Worcester District, representing Shrewsbury and Westborough. Fishman is a leader committed to defending reproductive health care, standing with our unions to demand fair wages for our middle class, and protecting voting rights and our democracy. Stephen is also fighting to give working parents much-needed relief by championing universal pre-K.
Virginia Leigh, LICS
Virginia Leigh is a bilingual licensed independent clinical social worker with fifteen years of experience working in community health centers, detention centers, and schools. She was a candidate for Sheriff of Essex County in 2022, earning 47.4% of the vote, and coming closer to beating an incumbent Sheriff than any other challenger in Massachusetts history.
Quentin Palfrey
Quentin Palfrey is an experienced lawyer who has held a number of government and nonprofit leadership roles in technology and health care. During the Obama administration, Quentin served as Senior Advisor for Jobs & Competitiveness in the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy and Deputy General Counsel for Strategic Initiatives at the US Department of Commerce. In those positions, Palfrey played a leading role in efforts to develop baseline consumer privacy legislation centered on the idea of a consumer privacy bill of rights and served as the lead White House staffer in connection with passage of the America Invents Act, the launch of the Patents for Humanity Initiative, and the re-launch of the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board.
Prior to his time in the Obama administration, Quentin served as the first chief of the Healthcare Division in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, where he oversaw multi-million-dollar litigation and investigations against insurance and pharmaceutical companies and played a key role in decisions relating to the implementation of Massachusetts’ landmark healthcare reform law. Quentin has also led several nonprofit organizations, including J-PAL North America (MIT’s poverty lab), where he worked to improve the efficacy of social services in the areas of health care, economic mobility, housing, and education; Global Access in Action, a project of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet Society at Harvard University that seeks to improve access to lifesaving medicines for the world’s poorest populations; and the Voter Protection Corps, which seeks to overcome obstacles voters face to registering, voting, and having their votes count. In 2018, Quentin was the Democratic nominee for Lt. Governor of Massachusetts. Quentin is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Sonia Chang-Díaz
The first Latina elected to the Massachusetts State Senate — and she’s spent her career fighting for people whose voices usually aren’t heard on Beacon Hill. Sonia wrote, championed, and won landmark education funding reforms to provide $1.5 billion in new aid to K-12 districts across the state. She has also won multiple protections for trans Bay Staters, negotiated a nation-leading police reform law, won increased assistance for small and local entrepreneurs, capped fare increases for public transportation, helped pass reforms to the state's CORI system, advanced environmental justice reforms, curtailed the misuse of special education dollars, expanded voting rights, and successfully defended millions of dollars in funding for youth development. She’s been a leading champion for fair taxation, affordable housing, reliable and green public transportation, and protections for immigrants. Prior to elected office, Sonia served as a public school teacher in the Lynn and Boston school systems, where she learned first-hand the challenges facing our public school students, teachers, and parents. Sonia lives in Jamaica Plain with her husband and two children.
Dr. Tami Gouveia
An organizer, mother, and public health champion who believes in the power of people coming together—through government and through community action—to benefit our collective wellbeing. A resident of Acton, a Doctor of Public Health, and a State Representative for the 14th Middlesex District, Tami is not afraid to stand up to those in power and to protect the health and rights of working people. Tami is running for Lieutenant Governor to help lead an equitable, just recovery from COVID-19, combat the intersecting environmental, economic, and social crises facing our Commonwealth, and engage directly with municipalities around the state to amplify and support the work of local governments and community activists.
Nicola Williams
Nicola Williams is a proud Jamaican-American woman who came from a politically active, socially progressive family. She learned from her family that voices do matter and for change to happen, we need to be active citizens. Guided by the principles of her upbringing, she was motivated to be an active citizen in her community, courageously engaging diverse populations. Nicola has been a Cambridge resident for nearly four decades. She is a social entrepreneur, community activist, and environmentalist. Nicola is the founder and President of The Williams Agency, a boutique marketing firm that works with social and progressive causes and organizes community events large and small. In her spare time, Nicola enjoys spending time with her loving partner, Thomas, her stepdaughters, and grandchildren, as well as cooking and gardening.