Fires with no functioning sprinklers to put them out. Tear gas used against individuals in confinement. Individuals being denied access to basic medication. Amputations due to a lack of care and supplies. Year-long delays in access to recommended treatment. Retaliation against individuals who submit grievances.
All of these happen in Massachusetts’s prisons, regularly with little scrutiny or corrective action.
There are many steps needed for robust accountability and a top-to-bottom rethink of the criminal justice system.
But there’s one that can happen now: your state legislators can start actually visiting prisons themselves.
State legislators, who vote to provide funding for the Department of Correction, should view it as incumbent upon themselves to follow up about how that funding is being used, not used, and misused. And they should be willing to listen to and meet with their constituents who are behind the wall when they raise the alarm about inhumane conditions.
Massachusetts also allows ICE detention in our state. Your legislators can be doing more.
The Plymouth County Correctional Facility, which maintains a detention contract with ICE, has been rife with systemic abuses for decades, well before the current administration.
Preserves funding for Mass Save: This is in contrast to the House bill, which cut $1 billion from Mass Save. The Senate bill caps administrative costs at 5% and removes gas companies from administering the program. It also adjusts the scope of the program to include solar, battery storage, and other clean energy technologies that save customers money. 20% of Mass Save is designated for LMI programs, codifying in law a recent equity allocation win in the latest Mass Save 3 year plan.
Phases Out the Gas System Enhancement Program (GSEP): Instead, utilities would be required to do advanced leak repair where feasible, as opposed to costly and unnecessary full pipe replacements.
Increases Clean Energy Procurement: DOER (Department Of Energy Resources) is authorized to procure 20 GW (Gigawatts) of renewable energy, including 10 GW of solar and 10 GW of wind, by 2040.
Regulates Predatory Third Party Suppliers: The bill enables municipalities to ban scammy third party electricity suppliers, who often rip off vulnerable communities with misleading offers. Third-party supply prices are capped for discount rate customers with bans on automatic renewals, cancellation fees, and variable rates.
Expands Geothermal: The bill authorizes gas companies to create thermal energy networks (networked geothermal) with worker protections.
Reins in Utility Profiteering: The bill bars the use of ratepayer funds forpromotional and political advertising; trade-association dues; charitable giving; lobbying; board/officer travel, lodging, entertainment, gifts, food/beverage, aircraft; tax penalties; non-regulated product marketing.
Bans Heat Wave Shut Offs: The bill bans electric shutoffs during heat waves, similar to the heating shutoff ban we have during cold weather.
Promotes Gas Transition Planning: The bill requires DPU to conduct integrated energy planning to facilitate transition off gas and requires disclosure of how infrastructure investment decisions (e.g. substation constructions) are made and reduce them.
BAD
Income Verification: Mass Save programs must verify household income for moderate-income rebates. This creates further bureaucratic hurdles for low and moderate-income customers, who can currently qualify for programs via self-attestation — which has been hugely successful.
Mass Save Budget Caps: Mass Save budgets are capped for each 3 yr. Plan, preventing mid-budget increases.
Corporate Representation in Mass Save Governance: The bill adds business representatives to the Mass Save Energy EfficiencyAdvisory Council)
Short-Term Decrease in Renewable Portfolio Standard: The bill reduces the state’s annual RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standards), i.e., the requirement for utilities to build renewables, increase from 3% to 1%, for the next three years (the bill, however, increases the RPS in the long term).
Counts Biomass as Renewable Energy: Woody biomass (trees, shrubs, etc), a highly polluting source of energy, are included as a clean energy source under the eligible Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standard for Municipal Lighting plants.
MISSING:
Preventing Gas System Expansion: No ban on large gas pipeline expansions by gas companies.
Stopping Ratepayers from Paying for LEA (Line Extension Allowances): No ban on ratepayers subsidizing line extensions for new construction/new customers.
Protections from Data Centers: No inclusion of protections from data center development (the House included modest protections around clean energy and increases in costs to ratepayers)
The Mass Power Forward Coalition is backing several amendments to strengthen the bill:
#1 (Comerford): Protect Constituents From Unreasonable Utility Profits, which studies studies the amount of profit utilities are being allowed to get from ratepayers
#25 (Gomez): Addressing Biomass, which removes highly-polluting woody biomass as an eligible fuel under the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standard for Municipal Lighting plants
#26 (Gomez): Halting Gas Expansion, which prevents the expansion of gas infrastructure near EJ communities and plans for a just transition away from fossil fuels
#37 (Creem): Prohibition on Charging Ratepayers for Goodwill or Institutional Advertising, which prevents utilities from charging their customers for institutional advertising, which is public relations aimed at enhancing the company’s image
#62 & #162 (Howard): Data Centers & Data Center Tax Credits, which establish safeguards around data center development for energy, water, health, and people’s bills
#77 (Eldridge): End Gas Line Extension Subsidies, which stops charging of all ratepayers for new gas line extension allowances
#78 (Edwards): Labor Peace for Thermal Energy Networks, which would require management to stay neutral in unionization efforts on publicly owned network geothermal projects
#82 (Rausch): DPU Clarification, which would remove section allowing “renewable natural gas blending” in the gas distribution system for commercial customers
#106 (Eldridge): Self-Attestation of Income, which keeps self-reporting for low and moderate-income households in Mass Save
Mass Power Forward is also opposing two amendments:
#114 (Fernandes): Relative to energy rebate checks, which takes money from crucial programs low-income housing decarbonization and local clean energy
#139 (Brady): Preserving Gas System Enhancement Plan Statutory Authority, which removes critical reforms to the GSEP program
The Massachusetts state primary is just over two months away on Tuesday, September 1, and the general election is just over four months away Tuesday, November 3. That time will fly by.
Over the past few months, our Elections Committee has been hard at work developing our candidate questionnaires, researching candidates, and interviewing candidates.
We endorsed US Senator Ed Markey earlier this year and announced our first round of US House and State Legislature endorsements earlier this month. It’s time for the next round.
As a member-based organization, all of our endorsements are ultimately decided by member votes, and we recently finished our first Congressional and Legislative member ballot of the summer.
Why Is a Race Not on the List Yet?
As a member-based organization, we conduct member ballots and have thorough questionnaires. That limits how many offices we can include on a ballot.
We defer to our chapters to take the lead on races in their territory. If our chapters want to host candidate forums or conduct their own votes, we will not take up the race until afterwards.
If you care about a specific Congressional or legislative race, just ask.
About Our Endorsement Process
Our endorsement process contains a few steps.
(1) Questionnaire: Every cycle, Progressive Mass’s Elections and Endorsements Committee (EEC) puts together comprehensive policy questionnaires for federal and state candidates, which we publish on our website. Only candidates who fill out these questionnaires are eligible for endorsement.
(2) Interviews: For Congressional races, the EEC conducts public interviews of all candidates who submit questionnaires. For legislative races, the EEC conducts research about the various races on the ballot and interviews candidates who submit questionnaires and meet certain criteria (progressive values, viability, etc.).
(3) Recommendations: The EEC then deliberates on whom and whether to recommend for endorsement to the full membership.
(4) Member Vote: The ultimate decision lies with our members. Candidates must receive at least 60% of the vote in a member ballot to receive an endorsement.
Congress
Jeromie Whalen for MA-01
As a public school educator, Jeromie Whalen understands the importance of investing in our future, of building a culture of civic engagement, and of creating a community and a country where all are welcome. He is running to rein in corporate power over our economy and our elections, make sure the wealthy are paying their fair share, and ensure that everyone has access to high-quality health care and higher education without cost. He is running against 37-year incumbent Richard Neal, who is one of Congress’s biggest recipients of corporate PAC money.
Jeromie has also been endorsed by our chapter Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution.
Patrick Roath is a democracy and voting rights advocate, having served as the former board chair of Common Cause Massachusetts. In that role, he was active in the rights for automatic voter registration, universal vote-by-mail, and same day registration. He is running on an omnibus Working Families Affordability Package, including tackling the costs of health care, housing, and child care, and Trump-proofing our government in order to rein in corruption and the abuse of power.
He is running against 22-year incumbent Stephen Lynch, one of the few Democrats left in the US Congress to have voted against the Affordable Care Act. Lynch is the only member of the Massachusetts delegation to have voted for the Laken Riley Act and has repeatedly voted with Republicans this Congressional session to roll back protections for our immigrant communities.
Patrick has also been endorsed by our chapters JP Progressives, Neponset Valley Progressives, True North Action Alliance, and Progressive West Roxbury/Roslindale.
Lora Wondolowski is the Greenfield City Council President, a role in which she has been able to shepherd a number of progressive policy initiatives. She got into local politics to fight cuts to Greenfield public schools, and she has been a reliable champion of public education. She was the founding executive director of the Massachusetts League of Environmental Voters, where she helped pass the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act, and currently works for the Peace Development Fund, investing in grassroots organizing efforts. She would bring a much-needed mix of progressive values, policymaking knowledge, and organizing experience to the State House. Learn more about Lora at https://wondoforrep.org/.
Lora has also been endorsed by our chapter Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution.
Celina Reyes for 16th Essex State Rep
The District: Lawrence (Ward A Pcts 2A, 3, 4; Ward E Pcts 1A, 2, 3, 4; Ward F), Methuen (Pcts 3, 7, 13A)
Celina Reyes is a Lawrence City Councilor, a family child care provider, and a leader of her local in SEIU 509. Through her work with SEIU 509, she has championed greater investments in child care and rent stabilization, and organized to help pass the Fair Share Amendment. She is running against a Democratic incumbent who joined Republicans in voting to weaken the protections for reproductive and gender-affirming care in the Shield 2.0 law, owns so many properties that he can’t remember how many, and has opposed efforts like a local option real estate transfer fee to address the housing crisis. Learn more about Celina at http://www.celinareyes.com.
Tom Hendrickson is an Agawam City Councilor, who has led local initiatives on Community Choice Aggregation and Council transparency, and has worked to elect progressives across Western Mass. He is running to be a champion for public schools, workers’ rights, taking on corporate power, and single payer health care. He is running against a 16-year conservative Republican incumbent who has never broken 28% on our Scorecard. Learn more about Tom at https://www.tomhendrickson.org/.
Michael Lachenmeyer for 12th Hampden State Rep
The District: East Longmeadow (Pcts 1, 2A, 3A, 4A), Monson (Pct A), Springfield (Ward 5 Pcts D, G; Ward 7 Pcts B, C, D, E, F, G, H1; Ward 8 Pcts B1, G), Wilbraham
Michael Lachenmeyer is a teacher, journalist, and organizer who is running to champion policies like reducing wealth inequality, single payer health care, and making state government more democratic and transparent. He is running against a conservative Democratic incumbent who voted against the Fair Share Amendment, the 2020 police reform bill, and the ROE Act. Learn more about Michael at https://electlachenmeyer.com/.
Mike Connolly has been a strong progressive ally since we first endorsed him in 2016. On our Progressive Scorecard of the State Legislature, his scores have ranged from 95% to 100%. Mike has fought for stronger tenant protections, social housing, and revenue for affordable housing, as well as workers’ rights, bold climate action, voting rights, transparency, and more. Mike is willing to speak out against bad, rushed legislation, and to push the State House to be more ambitious in all of its policymaking. Learn more about Mike at https://www.mikeconnolly.org/.
Thank you for your dedication to advancing pro-immigrant legislation through the Massachusetts legislature this session. We are grateful to the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus, and to the leadership of both chambers, for shepherding this important legislation.
Progressive Massachusetts is a statewide, multi-issue grassroots advocacy organization, with chapters across the Commonwealth, committed to fighting for a more equitable, just, sustainable, and democratic Commonwealth. We write to convey our strong support for the PROTECT Act, which includes many urgently needed protections for immigrant communities.
First, we strongly support the inclusion of protections for inmates and detained immigrants, such as access to phone calls and notice of rights. We are also grateful for the protections for schools, health facilities, and places of worship, which are sensitive locations that are crucial for our communities.
We respectfully urge the conference committee to include the following provisions in the final bill:
1. A ban on new 287(g) agreements, without exceptions. A clean ban would build community trust by reassuring immigrants that state and local law enforcement will never be enlisted to help the federal government’s mass deportation agenda, and it would be in line with similar laws in ten other states.
2. Clear limits on collaboration and communication with ICE. We strongly support the provisions in both House and Senate bills that prohibit the use of state or local resources for immigration enforcement and the initiation of communications with ICE. Specifying what conduct is prohibited–such as actively participating in immigration enforcement; interrogating and investigating individuals on behalf of ICE; and holding individuals on ICE detainers (codification of the Lunn decision)–would eliminate confusion and ensure uniform interpretation across the state. In addition, while both the House and Senate bills prohibit law enforcement from initiating contact with ICE, we urge you to include procedural safeguards around this communication to prevent fishing expeditions.
3. Ending courthouse arrests. We strongly support a ban on civil arrests in courthouses, the location of over 600 ICE arrests in 2025. In order to be effective, the ban should extend to the courthouse grounds as well as the courthouse interior;otherwise, ICE will simply wait outside to make these arrests. If our courthouses are not safe spaces, then there is no meaningful access to justice.
Thank you again for your time and work on this important issue.
This morning, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued a decision barring the proposed income tax cut ballot initiative from appearing on the November 2026 ballot because of its fraudulent ballot summary.
This is a massive victory that will protect Massachusetts from billions of dollars in budget cuts. However the fight isn’t over.
That’s because it was just one of two tax cut ballot initiatives that wealthy investors and CEOs have been attempting to qualify for the 2026 statewide ballot.
The dark-money Massachusetts Opportunity Alliance (MOA) is still backing a ballot initiative that would tighten the state’s revenue cap, known as “62F,” and slash funding for classrooms, hospitals, and first responders across the state.
What would this question do?
Trigger devastating cuts to public services, forcing Massachusetts to slash billions of dollars in public spending over the next decade.
Severely limit our ability to recover from recessions by triggering the largest budget cuts in the years following an economic recession
Give billions to the rich while the rest of us suffer from budget cuts
But Beacon Hill can take action now to neutralize this ballot question. The revenue cap itself is the result of an outdated, misguided 1986 ballot question. It was not about improving the well-being of the Commonwealth then, nor is MOA’s question about that today. The goal has always been weakening investment in and support for public services.
The best way to defeat this ballot question is to do away with the 62F revenue cap once and for all.
LEFT FIELD: Progressive Massachusetts is rolling out endorsements for several candidates on Friday. The group is backing state Representative Tram Nguyen in the state’s Sixth Congressional District Democratic primary and state Senate hopefuls Gayle and Persis Yu, who is challenging state Senator Mike Rush.
The Massachusetts state primary is less than three months away on Tuesday, September 1, and the general election is less than five months away on Tuesday, November 3. That time will fly by.
We announced our first 2026 endorsement earlier this year: US Senator Ed Markey.
Since then, our Elections Committee has been hard at work developing our candidate questionnaires, researching candidates, and interviewing candidates.
As a member-based organization, all of our endorsements are ultimately decided by member votes, and we recently finished our first Congressional and Legislative member ballot of the summer.
We devoted our first ballot to three categories: the open MA-06 race, chapter endorsements, and coalition partners. We will have more endorsements to come soon, and we will be collecting questionnaires for District Attorney and Governor’s Council races as well.
About Our Endorsement Process
Our endorsement process contains a few steps.
(1) Questionnaire: Every cycle, Progressive Mass’s Elections and Endorsements Committee (EEC) puts together comprehensive policy questionnaires for federal and state candidates, which we publish on our website. Only candidates who fill out these questionnaires are eligible for endorsement.
(2) Interviews: For Congressional races, the EEC conducts public interviews of all candidates who submit questionnaires. For legislative races, the EEC conducts research about the various races on the ballot and interviews candidates who submit questionnaires and meet certain criteria (progressive values, viability, etc.).
(3) Recommendations: The EEC then deliberates on whom and whether to recommend for endorsement to the full membership.
(4) Member Vote: The ultimate decision lies with our members. Candidates must receive at least 60% of the vote in a member ballot to receive an endorsement.
Congress
Tram Nguyen for MA-06
Tram Nguyen has a proven track record of fighting for working families and brings the lived experience of both an immigrant and a union member. As an attorney for Greater Boston Legal Services, she advocated for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, veterans, immigrants, low-wage workers, and people with disabilities. Since defeating a conservative Republican incumbent in the State House in 2018, she has been a reliable champion of legislation to protect workers, from expanding unemployment benefits during the pandemic to increasing the minimum wage to protecting injured workers from retaliation. At a time when immigrants’ rights, reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights, workers’ rights, and climate action are under attack every day from the Trump administration, Tram can be counted on to fight back.
A working mom and active BPS parent, trained as a lawyer and social worker, Persis Yu is an experienced consumer rights attorney and champion for families and workers. During her nearly two decades as a consumer rights attorney and advocate, she has secured billions of dollars in student debt relief, filed class action lawsuits that directly cancelled hundreds of thousands of dollars in predatory employer debt, and led campaigns that resulted in worker protection laws in more than a dozen states. She combines expert knowledge, a proven track record, and strong progressive values.
Persis Yu has also been endorsed by our chapters JP Progressives and Progressive West Roxbury/Roslindale.
Latoya Gayle for First Suffolk State Senate
The District: Boston: Downtown / Chinatown (Ward 3 Pcts 8, 14; Ward 5 Pct 1); Back Bay / South End / Bay Village (Ward 3 Pcts 7, 15, 16; Ward 4 Pcts 1 – 5; Ward 5 Pcts 13 & 14; Ward 8 Pcts 1 & 2; Ward 9 Pcts 1 & 2); South Boston (Wards 6 & 7); Dorchester (Ward 8 Pct 6; Ward 13 Pcts 3, 5-10; Wards 15-17)
Latoya Gayle has an impressive background in activism and advocacy, a clear commitment to social justice and progressive values, and a rootedness in her community. She is currently the Senior Director of Advocacy and Family Partnerships at Neighborhood Villages, where she advocates for early education and child care investments and empowers parents to do the same. She is a former chair of the BPS City-Wide Parent Council and organized March Like a Mother—a 1,000-person rally and vigil after the murder of George Floyd. She is an organizer who understands the urgency of addressing the housing crisis, the climate crisis, and the growing inequality in the state.
MA House
Jack Richardson for 3rd Barnstable State Rep
The District: Bourne (Pcts 4-6), Falmouth (Pcts 3-5, 7-9), Mashpee
Jack Richardson became the youngest person ever elected to the Falmouth Select Board, and he immediately got to work. He led the effort to ban ICE from town property without a judicial warrant and secured funding for a Portuguese-speaking social worker. He has championed measures to make Falmouth more affordable, vibrant, and more climate-resilient at the local level and is ready to fight for housing affordability and climate action at the State House.
Jack Richardson has also been endorsed by our chapter Indivisible Upper Cape.
Ravi Simon brings policy experience, organizing skills, and strong progressive values. As the legislative aide to Rep. Carmine Gentile, he worked on PM priorities like debt-free higher education, a local option real estate transfer fee, and same day registration. He has served as a member of the Lincoln-Sudbury School Committee, and he was an organizer with the State House Employee Union, fighting for better workplace conditions for himself and fellow legislative staff.
Lorena Betts is first and foremost an organizer. She is the founder of The Peacemakers Network, a grassroots movement of peacemakers in Massachusetts focused on building bridges through education, community building and policy advocacy, and has organized the local No Kings rallies in her community. She has State House experience as a legislative aide, and that experience has led her to understand how badly the State House is broken and the need for organizers inside working with those outside to make real change possible.
Lorena Betts has also been endorsed by our chapter Solidarity Lowell.
Ben Ewen-Campen has been a reliable progressive ally and a leader on key issues on the Somerville City Council. As an advocate for affordable housing, he helped found the statewide coalition fighting for a local option real estate transfer fee. He led the passage of Somerville’s Affordable Housing Overlay (AHO) District, and he spearheaded the work on Somerville’s rent control home rule petition. He led the passage of ordinances to ban tear gas and heavily restrict the use of other “non-lethal” crowd control techniques, require Council approval of surveillance technologies, and make Somerville the second city in the US to prohibit the usage of facial recognition technology by the local government.
Yesterday, the MA House voted 153 to 3 for a bill to protect school and public libraries and to rein in politically motivated book bans.
The 3 NO votes were from Republicans Donnie Berthiaume (R-Spencer), David DeCoste (R-Norwell), and John Gaskey (R-Carver).
The bill would do the following:
Add to the rights and responsibilities of students the right to receive information, including school library materials deemed educational and age appropriate
Ensure that determinations about whether materials are age appropriate be made by qualified school library professionals using their professional training and expertise, and not be based on personal, political, or doctrinal beliefs
Require every school district to adopt a written policy governing the selection and use of school library materials and facilities in line with standards established by the American Library Association, including a clear process for handling complaints and challenges to library materials
Establish a formal review process for challenged materials, in which challenged items would remain available while a review is underway and reviews are conducted by a committee appointed by the superintendent and school committee (with a hearing and a recommendation). School committees could remove materials only after determining, based on clear and convincing evidence, that the material lacks educational, literary, artistic, personal, or social value and is not age appropriate for any student attending the school. Students and parents would have the right to appeal those decisions.
Require public libraries to adopt and publicly post written policies governing the selection and use of library materials and facilities, which must incorporate the ALA’s Bill of Rights and ensure that materials are not selected, restricted, or removed based on personal, political, or doctrinal viewpoints
Protect librarians and other library professionals from disciplinary action, loss of licensure, transfer, fines, or other penalties related to the selection of library materials
Require an annual report on book challenges and their impacts on communities across the Commonwealth
The House voted down a Republican amendment to weaken the bill by politicizing the process of reviewing challenged books. It failed 23 to 133, with all but two Republicans voting for it and all Democrats voting against.
The House also voted down an amendment from Gaskey to strip legal protections from librarians. The vote was preceded by an unhinged rant from Gaskey in which he railed against “state-sponsored pornography.” DeCoste was the only legislator to join him on his amendment.
The Senate passed a similar bill in November, and the two chambers will soon appoint a conference committee to negotiate final text.
June 1, 2026 The Honorable Aaron Michlewitz Chair, House Committee on Ways and Means State House, Room 243 24 Beacon St. Boston, MA 02133
Dear Chairman Michlewitz and Committee Members, We are writing to you in support of H.2554, An Act Relative to Routine Childhood Immunizations, which was recently reported favorably out of the House Committee on Health Care Financing. The aim of H.2554 is to ensure that Massachusetts vaccine recommendations should be based on sound scientific evidence and that its residents should be able to access immunizations and immunization data. The undersigned organizations respectfully request that the House Committee on Ways and Means report out favorably H.2554, An Act Relative to Routine Childhood Immunizations, which would remove the non-medical exemption from required school vaccines and enhance data collection and sharing to better track immunization rates.
H.2554 is supported by leading medical, public health, labor, education, and community organizations. Additionally, polling conducted statewide shows that Massachusetts voters and parents overwhelmingly support strong vaccine requirements and strengthening immunization reporting requirements. 70% of Massachusetts voters support H.2554’s passage, with support rising to 72% after respondents considered various arguments for and against the legislation. Support for H.2554 was broadly consistent among voters from various demographic groups and areas of the state.
Major religious groups agree that immunization is part of society’s moral duty to care for the greater common good. Even religious organizations in traditionally conservative areas take this stance, with some religious private schools setting their own strong vaccine requirements. Recent data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health indicate that use of the non-medical exemption continues to steadily increase. During the 2025-2026 school year, over a thousand kindergartners received non-medical exemptions from at least one vaccine—more than in any previous year. Dozens of schools reported MMR immunization rates low enough to leave them vulnerable to outbreaks.
With measles cases already reported in Massachusetts this year, we must act now to prevent its spread. Eliminating non-medical exemptions is the most effective way to prevent outbreaks and ensure strong immunization rates.
We respectfully ask that the Committee report H.2554 out favorably. Thank you for your leadership and your support of this important legislation.
Sincerely, Katie Blair, JD, Director Massachusetts Families for Vaccines Northe Saunders, President American Families for Vaccines Jessica Tang, President American Federation of Teachers Massachusetts Patti Wukovits and Alicia Stillman, Co-Executive Directors American Society for Meningitis Prevention Azhar Majeed, Director of Government Affairs and Policy Center for Inquiry Justin Pasquariello, Chief Executive Officer East Boston Social Centers Alicia Stillman, Executive Director Emily Stillman Foundation Ryan D. Jayne, Senior Policy Counsel Freedom From Religion Foundation Action Fund Lisa Lemieux, President Greater Southeastern Massachusetts Labor Council Matt Prentice, MPH, Director of Policy Immune Deficiency Foundation
Patti Wukovits, BSN, RN, AMB-BC, Executive Director Kimberly Coffey Foundation Chloe Schwartz, MPH, Director, Maternal & Infant Health Initiative March of Dimes David Cohen, Co-Chair Mass-Care Manju Mahajan, MD, FAAFP, President Massachusetts Academy of Family Physicians Lissette Blondet, EdM, Executive Director Taylor Rich, MPH, CCHW, Senior Manager of Training Massachusetts Association of Community Health Workers William J. Eddy, Executive Director Massachusetts Association of Early Education & Care Brenda Anders Pring, MD, FAAP, President Massachusetts Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics Lauren Doctoroff, MD, MBA, Governor Hemal Sampat, MD & Sunny Kung, MD, Co-Chairs, Health and Public Policy Committee Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Physicians Emily Dulong, Vice President, Government Advocacy and Public Policy Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association Rebecca W. Brendel, MD, JD, President Massachusetts Medical Society Kathresha Cureton, President Massachusetts PTA Oami Amarasingham, JD, Deputy Director Massachusetts Public Health Alliance
Michael Constantine, MD, President Massachusetts Society of Clinical Oncologists Max Page, President Massachusetts Teachers Association John Lippitt, Ph.D., Leadership Team Member Progressive Democrats of Massachusetts Jonathan Cohn, Policy Director Progressive Massachusetts Dan Hoffer, Political and Legislative Director SEIU Local 509 Laura Packard, Founder Voices of Health Care Action
