45 years’ experience working for the people

  • Founder, Brockton Bikes
  • Founder, Brockton Walks
  • Leading advocate for safe roads (reducing accidents, injuries & deaths) in Brockton
  • Member, Downtown Brockton Brockton & Trout Brook Rezoning Steering Committee
  • Board President, Soco Lofts condos in Brockton
  • Senior Streetworker – worked with law enforcement, clergy & community to sharply reduce youth violence (“Boston Miracle”)
  • Community organizer – helped neighbors stop 320-unit luxury apartment complex in a historic neighborhood
  • former Treasurer, Friends of the Melnea Cass Facility (a DCR park/facility)
  • Elected Delegate three times to Massachusetts Democratic Party State Convention
  • Data consultant, Detention Diversion Advocacy Program, Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps
  • former Deputy Director, Fathers & Families
  • Strategist for candidates like Tina Cardoso, Bri Nichols, Liz Miranda, Chynah Tyler, Gloria Murray, Sheneal Parker, Will Dickerson
  • Volunteer for candidates like Ayanna Pressley, Bernie Sanders, Jimmy Pereira, John Barros, Linda Dorcena-Forry, Sonia Chang-Diaz, John Connolly, Rahsaan Hall, Marydith Tuitt, Will Dorcena, Jay Gonzalez, Ramon Soto
  • Spent two summers (18 & 19-years old) organizing farmworkers in California
  • Parade marshal for the Mudd Band for many years in Boston’s Caribbean Carnival
  • Social media advisor, Boston Gun Buyback
  • Webmaster, Nonviolence Institute, Providence, RI
  • Consultant, Youth Advocacy Foundation
  • Co-founded Harbor Point Tenants Rights Organization
  • Ran federal grant for high-risk youth worth $12.7 million in today’s dollars:
    • Placed 326 dropouts back in school;
    • placed 300 in private sector jobs;
    • created 650 summer jobs;
    • won $24 million in new funding ($45.8 million in today’s dollars).