Precinct: 3
Tell us a little about yourself. You can include your personal background, family, outside interests that are important to who you are as a person and a candidate.
I have had a long career in community service, including being the Executive Director of an anti-poverty agency, two community development corporations, and a non-profit community hospice. I have also been an outplacement consultant and internal organizational development consultant in two large non-profit organizations: Lifespan (a health care organization based in Providence) and MIT.
How has your past experience — whether in your professional life, elected office, or as a community leader — prepared you for a role in Town Meeting?
Three-year Lexington Town Meeting member
Member of Lexington Democratic Town Committee
Driver Coordinator for FISH (volunteer rides to medical appointments)
Volunteer for home deliveries for Lexington Food Pantry
Volunteer for MIRA (Massachusetts Immigrants and Refugee Advocacy Coalition), mainly doing voter registration for new citizens
Phonebank volunteer with Swing Blue Alliance
What is the most important issue in this election to you personally, and what ideas do you have about how to address this issue?
Affordable Housing: We need to reverse nearly 100 years of exclusionary zoning practices and be willing to shoulder the costs and inconveniences in addressing this local and statewide crisis.
Climate Change: While much must be done at a national and international level, Lexington has done much at a local level to counter decades of carbon and plastic proliferation. We must go further and do more, acknowledging (again) the costs and inconveniences in pursuing such an agenda, for our sakes and our children’s and grandchildren’s.
Many times in coaching within corporations and achieving effective compromises as a non-profit director.