I will sit at the table and compromise with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things I'm not willing to compromise and negotiate on, and that is the rights of women, of immigrants, of workers, and of the LGBTQIA community.
For me, whatever vantage point that I'm serving, I'm going to be an advocate and do the work to actualize my values.
I happen to be black and a woman and unapologetically proud to be both, but that is not the totality of my identity.
We want Boston to be the safest bicycling city.
Thanks to my mother's sacrifices, I was able to attend one of the best schools in Chicago.
I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.
