“Serving you is my honor and I hope to continue to do so as your MAYOR. I have the experience, passion and determination to make a better Worcester for all, and it starts with your vote for me on November 3”.
- Successfully established Set for Success, a Back Pack and School Supply Drive for homeless children, providing over 1,000 young people with backpacks and supplies, and over $12,000 for local schools.
- Balanced a half billion and quarter billion dollar budgets, respectively.
- Saved Park Spirit from mismanagement and successfully implemented fiscal controls and increased membership and funds, managed funds of over $300,000.
- Established a statewide Coalition of School Committees to lobby for a formula change in education resulting in saving over 50 teacher’s positions in Worcester, alone.
- Established the MASC Advocacy Committee and the Division IX Urban Committee.
Worcester City Councilor At Large 2006 to present
- First woman in the City’s History to be elected directly from the School Committee to the Council. Elected 4th place of 6 out of 8 challengers in 2005. Elected 3rd place out of 12 out of 18 challengers in the first preliminary election in decades; Elected 3rd place out of 6 out of 12 challengers.
- Chair, Education /University Relations/Arts and Culture Committee 2005 to present
- Chair , Legislative Affairs Committee 2005 to 2007
- Member Legislative Committee/Youth Parks and Recreation Committee 2005 to 2007
- Public Service/Transportation/Military Affairs
- Traffic and Parking; Legislative Affairs 2005 to present
Worcester School Committee Member 1999 to 
2005
- Served three two year terms on the Worcester School Committee; Chair of the Vocational Subcommittee
- Member, Curriculum Development Subcommittee; Budget Subcommittee
- Chair, Mass. Assoc. of School Committees Legislative Committee
- Completed several professional development courses from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees
Community Involvement
- Creator of Set for Success
- Former President, Park Spirit of Worcester, Inc.
- Member: Grafton Hill Neighborhood Association; Ward 5 Worcester Democratic City Committee; Elected Delegate to many Conventions; St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee; Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians; Emerald Club; Social Member, Sons of Italy; League of Women Voters; NAACP; Worcester, A City that Reads; Hearing Our Voices, Having Our Say; Former member, Mayor’s Commission on At Risk Youth; Minority Achievers, YMCA;
- Former Officer, Roosevelt PTG; Worcester Arts Magnet School PTG; Former Member Worcester Arts Magnet School Governance Council; Member, SOFA; Former Co-Chair, City Wide Parent Planning Advisory Council; Stand For Children
- Board Member: Laurie C. Tinsley Scholarship Committee; Board Member, Junior Achievement of Central MA; Founding Board Member, Worcester Working Coalition for Latino Youth
- Member, Together For Kids; Department of Education Racial Imbalance Advisory Group; Member; Building Brighter Futures for Youth
Honors & Awards
- 2008 Best City Councilor Worcester Magazine
- The MLK, Jr. Youth Breakfast Committee Dr. George Storms Smith Youth Service Award, 2007
- One of City Living’s Most Influential Women, 2006
- MASC All State School Committee Member, 2005
- Thomas Jefferson Award Recipient, 2004
- Park Spirit MVP Award, 2003
