Open Letter to Governor Healey for Humane Housing Policies
August 6, 2024
Dear Governor Healey,
We write as healthcare workers, service professionals, and community leaders working with socially marginalized Massachusetts communities to urge you to immediately reconsider and postpone the recent changes to Emergency Assistance (EA) eligibility, and to develop holistic and humane housing policies, which promote the health and human rights of thousands of impacted Massachusetts residents.
We have applauded your administration’s Health Equity Initiative, which in January 2024, pledged to tackle the economic, social, and environmental factors, such as lack of housing, which drive health inequities and disproportionately impact communities of color. Thus, we are shocked that your administration has opted to evict hundreds of families experiencing homelessness out of emergency shelters onto Massachusetts’ streets, with just two weeks’ notice. In light of the Supreme Court ruling, and the City of Boston Unlawful Camping Ordinance, this decision will force adults and children onto the streets with nowhere else to go, where they will inevitably find themselves at risk of illness related to exposure to severe weather, violence and abuse, arrest, separation from their children, and deportation. Their very existence, simply for seeking safety and being unhoused residents of the state of Massachusetts, will be criminalized.
This policy decision violates the spirit of the Massachusetts Right to Shelter Law. The associated changes to protocol, including barring enrollment in MassHealth for families presenting to the Family Welcome Centers and dissuading public school enrollment, further infringe on people’s economic, social, and cultural human rights.
Racism is a public health crisis, which systematically places communities of color at risk of homelessness; violence; and economic forces that push families to leave their homes in search of a basic level of safety. Medical and public health literature demonstrates the overwhelmingly negative impacts of homelessness on the health of adults, children and families:
- The stability of a medical home and school community are fundamental to child well-being, particularly for those experiencing homelessness. Homeless children are more than twice as likely to have health problems and three times as likely to have severe health problems, compared to children who are stably housed.
- The stress and instability of homelessness interfere with the normal developmental processes of childhood and impact education and behavior. Children experiencing homelessness are at increased risk for speech delays and other developmental disorders. Housing instability creates additional barriers to school enrollment and attendance, making developmental challenges more difficult to mitigate. Children experiencing homelessness are more than twice as likely to repeat a grade, drop out of school, or be cited for behavioral issues, suspended, or expelled.
- Children experiencing homelessness are at increased risk for abuse, exploitation, exposure to violence, and psychological trauma. Rates of suicidality are higher among homeless youth, and interventions designed to protect emotional health are less effective in the context of family homelessness.
- Numerous studies have demonstrated the association between homelessness in pregnancy and adverse neonatal outcomes, including low birth weight, preterm delivery, and neonatal intensive care unit admission and prolonged stays. Lack of stable and affordable housing is a major risk factor for postpartum depression and anxiety. Despite the increased risk for complications, homeless pregnant individuals accessed less prenatal care and were more likely to require costly emergency room care.
- The preponderance of the scientific evidence indicates that reducing access to safe shelter for families experiencing homelessness risks increasing the likelihood of adverse physical, emotional, developmental, and educational outcomes for children, with potential long term implications for wellbeing across the lifespan.
Policies that seek to exclude any vulnerable population from our Commonwealth’s longstanding right to shelter inevitably hurt everyone. Prioritizing certain high risk populations is inadequate, given all children are at high risk of harm from homelessness. Our immigrant community members flee horrific conditions in their countries of origin, and these policies will be unlikely to substantially deter further migration. Instead, they will surely compound the trauma that families who migrate have already experienced–especially children. The exclusionary nature of the new policies will also harm longstanding Massachusetts residents, who will no longer be able to access EA shelter if they lose their homes due to inability to pay ever-escalating rents, which is not considered a no-fault eviction. At a time when our state’s mental health system is already struggling to meet existing needs, there is no justification for implementing destabilizing policies that are sure to exacerbate anxiety, depression, and other psychiatric conditions in our community.
As our Attorney General in 2019, you led a brief demanding immediate relief for children in detention centers, as Massachusetts residents demonstrated against cruel immigration policies, which placed children in cages and separated families. We ask you once again to be that leader who fights to uphold our laws as well as our moral and ethical compass. Health equity does not occur in a vacuum, but rather requires a commitment to equity in all policies.
We urge you to immediately:
- Reconsider and postpone the proposed changes to EA shelter eligibility pending inclusive and transparent conversations with service providers and affected families to brainstorm alternative systemic solutions and safe implementation, including a full consideration of proposals from community partners to address the growing homelessness crisis).
- Transparently and broadly communicate a plan for obtaining alternative housing for families who will be discharged from EA shelters and overflow shelters/Temporary Respite Centers
- Ensure equal access and facilitation of public school and public health insurance enrollment for all families, regardless of language spoken, national origin, or immigration status
- Collaboratively partner with cities and towns, community-based organizations, and religious institutions who have experience working with families experiencing homelessness to ensure no child spends a night on our streets, and compassionately support families in successfully transitioning to stable, permanent housing.
Organizations:
- Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity
2. Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
3. Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program
4. Mass Law Reform Institute
5. National Lawyer’s Guild
6. MLPB
7. Horizons for Homeless Children
8. Healing & Wellness: Empowering Migrant Minds
9. Advocacy for Refugee and Immigrant Services for Empowerment (ARISE)
10. Immigrant Services Providers Group
11. Center for New Americans
12. Western Mass Network to End Homelessness
13. Building Audacity
14. First Parish in Concord, Unitarian Universalist
15. Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
16. YWCA Cambridge
17. Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
18. Tides for Reproductive Freedom
19. Casa Esperanza, Inc.
20. YMCA Southcoast
21. Springfield No One Leaves/Nadie Se Mude
22. Building Audacity
23. Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center
24. Behavioral Health Partners of MetroWest
25. Northeast Justice Center
26. Worcester Community Action Council
27. Harvard Chan Intersex and Trans Justice Student Society
28. Greater Framingham Community Church
29. Children’s HealthWatch
30. Brazilian Women’s Group
31. One Family
32. Lynn Rapid Response Network
33. Massachusetts Advocates for Children
34. Community Action Agency of Somerville, Inc.
35. Save Souls, INC
36. The Right to Immigration Institute
37. Open Door Immigration Services
38. DotHouse Health
39. Material Aid and Advocacy Program
40. De Novo Center for Justice and Healing
Individual Signatories:
- Lara Jirmanus, MD MPH
2. Fiona Danaher, MD, Pediatrician
3. Rashmi Jasrasaria, MD
4. Aura Obando, MD
5. Juliana Morris, MD, MEd
6. Anita Mathews, MD
7. Avik Chatterjee, MD MPH
8. Sarah Kimball, MD
9. Denise De Las Nueces, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer and Interim CEO, Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program
10. Patricia Holliday, Chief Electronic Information Officer, Boston Healthcare for the Homeless Program9. Sarah Kiser, PNP-PC
11. Kate Barrand, Horizons for Homeless Children, President & CEO
12. Kate Douglas, MD, Pediatrician
13. Michelle Jean-Baptiste, Association of Haitian Women in Boston, Office Support Administrator/Task Force Coordinator
14. Amy Pasternack, MD
15. Mardge Cohen, MD
16. Rebecca Warner, MD
17. Sunny Kung MD
18. Jillian Phillips, LICSW, Office of New Americans at Friendly House, Program Director
19. Tracey Taldon, LICSW, Healing & Wellness: Empowering Migrant Minds Owner/Founder
20. Rev. Kathleen McTigue, BIJAN
21. Anne Beckett, MD, MPH
22. Victoria Trump Redd, MD
23. Ari Barbanell, Executive Director, Circle of Hope
24. Jordana Laks, MD, MPH
25. Emma Hartswick MD, MPP
26. Tia Tucker, MD, MPH
27. Leotilde Cherenfant, CADC, Social Worker
28. Brett Mitchell, MD, MPH
29. Jennifer Stern-Robbins, Human Services, Shrewsbury Public Schools Family Liaison
30. Alex Pirie, Immigrant Services Providers Group Health Coordinator
31. Rohini Rau-murthy, MD
32. Jane Hopkins-Walsh, PhD, PNP-BC, RN
33. Neha Anand, MD MPH
34. Ashley Carter, Non profit coordinator
35. Carolyn Arnold, MD MPH
36. Michael Taglienti, MD
37. Xolchit Polanco, Wraparound Coordinator
38. Altaf Saadi MD, MSc, MGH/HMS, Assistant Professor
39. Hannah Simons, MSN, RN
40. Mukesh Baral, MA, Advocacy for Refugee and Immigrant Services for Empowerment (ARISE), Executive Director
41. Mark Eisenberg, MD
42. Eliza Firn, MD, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Fellow
43. Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH
44. Reverend Jeffrey Conlon, United Church of Christ Pastor, Retired
45. Francisca Chou, MD
46. Nahiris Bahamón, MD
47. Carolyn Droser, LICSW, Worcester Area Mission Society, Chair of the Board of Directors
48. Jessie Gaeta, MD
49. David Munson, MD,
50. Katherine Miller, MD
51. Rebecca Nuernberger, PhD, MSN
52. Kelly Turley, MSW/MA, Associate Director, Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless
53. Prabhjot Minhas, MD
54. Laurie Millman, MA, Center for New Americans, Executive Director
55. Linda Nix, MD, MPH
56. Jessica Gregory, MD
57. Tanya Williams, Previously homeless, Disabled
58. Jennifer Pollard, MS, RN, PPCNP-BC, Family Team Nurse Manager
59. Jennifer Brody, MD, MPH, AAHIVS
60. Julia Bafia, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Intern
61. Jennifer Audley, Franklin Regional Council of Governments, Community Health Improvement Plan Coordinator
62. Leigh Simmons, MD
63. Alison Liu, MD, MPH
64. Julia Koehler, MD
65. Amir Hassan, MD
66. Paula Watnick, MD, PhD
67. Rita Wang, MD
68. Amanda Stewart, MD, MPH, Attending Physician
69. Sarah Koolsbergen
70. Jessica Gregory, MD
71. Claire Paduano, M
72. Priyank Jain, MBBS
73. Timothy O’Neil, African Community Education, Director of Development
74. Cecile Tousignant, MS, CEO, Child Tools Consulting
75. Carline Desire, Association of Haitian Women, Inc, Executive Director
76. Julia Randall, MD
77. Terri LaCoursiere-Zucchero, PhD, RN, FNP
78. Alyssa Coffin, MD
79. Caren Solomon, MD, MPH
80. Leika Cherubin, Community Health Worker, RISE
81. Maydee Morales, Worcester Community Organizer
82. Rebecca Lee, MD
83. Maggie McGean, MD
84. Laura McNulty, MPH, MSW, Community Health Epidemiologist
85. Peter Smith, MD
86. Keiko Mizuguchi, MA, LMHC, Behavioral Health Clinician
87. Ghulam Khan, MD
88. Helen Gibbons, PharmD, MPH, Pharmacist
89. Rachel Mott Keis, MD
90. James Apt, Medical Case Manager
91. Iomay Caban, Salasin, Housing Navigator
92. Sandra McCollin MPH
93. Kristin Guyot, JD
94. Kathleen Kendrick, Case Manager, Meryl’s Safe Haven
95. Beth Rosenberg, ScD, MPH
96. Linda Smith, MA, ATR-BC, LMHC, Senior Clinical Supervisor
97. Alexis Ladd, Masters in Public Health, Marketing
98. Stephanie Yesner, BSN,
99. Amy Copperman, MLPB, Executive Director
100. Elizabeth Green, Executive Director Three Sisters Garden Project
101. Beth Derderian, MPH, AE-C, Quality and Population Health Manager
102. Dominica Diaz, Community Health Worker
103. Rachel Allende, LICSW, Clinical Social Worker
104. Kate Shapiro, JD, CAPV Program Manager
105. Isabel Lana, Program Coordinator for the Center for Immigrant Health and Asylum Clinic
106. Kelly Flannery, C-CHW, MPH, Community Health Worker Team Lead
107. Kerri George, Housing Search Specialist, FCRHRA
108. Judy Wolberg, MSN, CNM retired, BIJAN- Beyond Bail and Legal Defense Fund
109. Linda Smith, MA, ATR-BC, LMHC, Senior Clinical Supervisor
110. Adam Bazari, MD
111. Robin McKenzie, MD
112. Melanie Brunt, MD, MPH
113. Karina Edouard, Doctoral Candidate, Cornell University
114. Malini Sampath, Case Manager
115. Jeffrey Herman, RN BSN MPH
116. Jim Recht, MD, Psychiatrist
117. Nicole Sabatino, RN, MA SANE, Women’s Health Nurse Manager
118. Rosa Guerra, Center for New Americans, Ed & Career Advisor
119. Andrew Hyatt, MD, Staff psychiatrist
120. Meranda Baptiste, RAFT Administrator
121. Andrew Olsen, MS, PA-C, Physician Assistant
122. Jenna Berry, DMH, Human Service Coordinator
123. Joanne Gravell
124. Alice Wanamaker, MIRA Coalition, Legal Support Intern
125. Mary Ladesic, DNP, NP-BC, Nurse Practitioner
126. Lisa Rahn, YMCA Southcoast Community Outreach Director
127. Miriam Harris, MD, MSc,
128. Gwen Weissinger, Marketing Coordinator
129. Claudine Marie Guerrier, MEd, Counseling Psychology Operation ABLE Boston, MASNAP Outreach Coordinator/ Bilingual Community Advocate
130. Eve Gilmore, MSW, Edward Street, CEO
131. Etel Haxhiaj, Worcester City Councilor
132. Pamela Gudino, RN, MPH, FNP-BC
133. Liv Anna Homstead, MSW, Coalition Building Manager
134. Lillian Siegel, CNM
135. Nina Robinson, MBA, Former Operations Manager of Quincy Temporary Emergency Shelter at Eastern Nazarene College
136. Emily Hurstak, MD, MPH, MAS
137. Cassis Henry, MD, Psychiatrist
138. Kimberly Goldstein, LICSW, Social Worker in Primary Care Clinic
139. Amir Mohareb, MD
140. Omolewa Fagboore, Nigerian American Organization, Career Pipeline Program Director
141. Emily Regier, MD
142. Jesse Muzzy, People’s Medicine Project, Assistant Director
143. Nicole Young-Sileo, MD
144. Stephan Chataigne, RN
145. G Welch, MS, Community Action Pioneer Valley, Youth Housing Specialist
146. Andrea Gordon, MD
147. Devin Wolfe, MSW, LCSW, Clinical Social Worker
148. Crystal Andrade, MBA, Accounting Office Manager
149. Ellen Forman, LICSW, Department of Clinical Social Work, Manager, Community Resource Center
150. Jackson Roberts, MD
151. Sarah Hadge, LICSW, Social worker
152. Kaleena Thompson, M.Ed, Community health worker
153. Nikki Monfredo, Bachelor’s Degree of Science, Kennedy Community Health Center, Community Health Worker
154. Emily Lapidus, LICSW
155. Emily Kung, MD, Pediatrician
156. Feyla Mcnamara, Tides for Reproductive Freedom, Co-Executive Director
157./ Christine Tardiff, MSW, LICSW, MAPM, Social Worker
158. Diliana De Jesus, Casa Esperanza, Inc., Chief Development Officer & Deputy Director
159. Cara Callahan, Tides for Reproductive Freedom, Director of Intake
160. Claudia Guillen, DNP
161. Eliza Lawrence, MA, Regional Environmental Council
162. Margot Jones,
163. Aisha James, MD
164. Peggi McSharry, RN, ACRN, Associate Director, HIV Services
165. Jillian Santom, MSW, LICSW, Maternity Social Worker
166. Paula Cruz, MSN, RN, FNP-C, CNOR
167. Kathryn HimmlsteinMD, MSEd
168. Lydia Davis, Director Youth Homeless Action Group, Community Action Pioneer Valley Training & Activism Coordinator
169. Kyle Zegel, Just Roots, Community Support Coordinator
170. Sunflower Petrichor, Community Worker
171. Jessica Hunnewell, MPH, Researcher
172. Jonathan Harris, PA-C
173. Peggi McSharry, RN, ACRN, Associate Director, HIV Services
174. Tatiana Saenz, MSN RN
175. Katherine McDaniel, MD, MSc, Fellow, Preventive Medicine
176. Lesly Adame, Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition, Food Access Coordinator
177. Tiffany Joseph, PhD, Northeastern University, Associate Professor
178. Alison Liu, MD, MPH
179. Judith Goldberger, RN, BSN, Staff nurse, Labor & delivery
180. Laura Sylvester, MPH/MPPA, Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, Public Policy Manager
181. Puja Kranz-Howe, YWCA Cambridge Advocacy and Youth Leadership Manager
182. Gina Landrin, African Community Education, Case Manager
183. Adrienne Mosey, LICSW
183. Bianca Viazzoli, LCSW, Inpatient Pediatric Clinical Social Worker
184. Caroline Rohnstock, Resource Specialist, Social Services
185. Claudia Motta, Massachusetts General Hospital
186. Elsa Guzman, Community Mental Health Worker
187. Susan Massad, Professor
188. Madeline Liakos, LICSW, Clinical Social Worker
189. Grace Santana, Resource Specialist Social Services
190. Mary Bennett, LICSW, Clinical Social Worker
191. Laura Rose
192. Pamela Schwartz, Director, Western MA Network to End Homelessness
193. Kathryn Sweeney, Community Resource Specialist
194. Vanessa Adjei, MPH, C-CHW, Project Manager
195. Meredith Laban, Director
196. Sarah Reilly, MSW LCSW, Clinical Social Worker
197. Tiara Lamberth, Project Specialist
198. Anna Luti, LICSW, Integrated Care Management Program
199. Ana Reinoso, Certified Health Coach, Patient Navigator
200. Anna Sophia Morales, Developmental Specialist
201. Haidee Cano, LICSW, Confíanza Psychotherapy Social Worker
202. Laura McCarthy, RN, Case Manager
203. Lia Rosenberg, PA-C, Primary Care Physician Assistant
204. Meghan Caldwell, LICSW, Pediatric Social Worker
205. Erickson Cyrius, Community Health Worker
206. Rev. Paul Langston-Daley, MDiv. First Parish in Concord, Unitarian Universalist, Minister for Social Action
207. Susan Kessler, LICSW, MGH Lurie Center for Autism, Family Support Clinician
208. Rose Webster-Smith, Springfield, Director, No One Leaves/Nadie Se Mude
209. Elizabeth Deleon, Senior Patient Navigator
210. Jessica Bethoney, Professor
211. Nakia Navarro, Building Audacity, Lead Organizer
212. Miraf Kebede, Community Health Worker
213. Karla Haney MSN, BSN
214. Molly Nylen, Development Operations Coordinator
215. Zoe Weinstein, MD, MS, Boston Medical
216. Hallie Rozansky, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
217. Pooja Mehta, MD, MSHP
218. Rebeca Vergara Greeno, MD,
219.Patricia Guglietta, MD
220. Robert Quinn-O’Connor, Master of Education (Counseling Psychology), Social Services Advocate
221. Gloria Rosario, Patient Navigator
222. Sabel Flynn, BSN RN, ACRN
223. Meghan Sullivan, MSW, LICSW, Clinical Social Worker
224. Kelley Lane, MBA, MSW, LCSW
225. Chelsea Sedani, MSW, Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Director of Advocacy
226. Jefferson Xu, Community Health Worker
227. Joseph Boyle, MD
228. Kasandra Gomez Cortes, Patient Navigator
229. Michelle Haimowitz, Executive Director, Massachusetts Head Start Association
230. Andrins Renaudin, Executive Director, Cognitive Holistic Healing
231. Camden Fuller, JD, Central West Justice Center
232. Nancy Mahoney, Making Opportunity Count-Head Start Director
234. Robert Hallion, Behavioral Health Partners of MetroWest, Executive Director
235. Emily Herzig, Northeast Justice Center, Senior Paralegal
236. Rev. Laura Everett, M.Div., Massachusetts Council Of Churches, Executive Director
237. Robert P.Marlin, MD, PhD, MPH
238. Sara Pateras-Poli, MSW, LCSW, Project Manager
239. Andrew Fagan Housing Specialist
240. Katlyn Troisi, LICSW, Social Worker
241. Linda Finkle, Advocates, Inc.Behavioral Health Care Coordinator
242. Julia Bartolomeo, MD
243. Katelyn Elie MA — Clinical Psychology, Advocates, Clinical Care Manager
244. Stephanie Di Dio, LCSW, Family Promise Metrowest, Director of Programs
245. Cayden Davis, MA, Behavioral Health Partners of MetroWest, Project Coordinator
246. Rachel Harrington-Levey, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Director of Behavioral Health for Family Team
247. Katie Flanagan, Development Associate
248. Alexandra Todorov, RNS, MOC Child Care & Head Start, Health Coordinator
249. Stephanie Tavarez, LMHC, Behavioral Health clinician
250. Emiluy Gregonis, MSN, PMHNP-BC
251. Alan Papscun, Artist
252. Joseph Lloyd, PhD, Greater Framingham Community Church, Pastor
253. Ruth Economou, MSW, Social Worker
254. Brenna Feeley, LICSW, Clinical social worker
255. Beckie Tachick, RN
256. Mary Ann Kopydlowski, RN, BSN
257. Paula Hercule, MD, Primary care physician
258. Tayler Wyss, MPH, Training Manager
259. Andrea M.Park, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Director of Community Driven Advocacy
260. Samantha Kelts, RN, BSN, Respite Nurse
261. Patricia Baker, Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, Senior Policy Advocate
262. Joe Wright, MD,
263. Elizabeth Lewis, Lead Analyst
264. Maggie Sullivan, FNP-BC, DrPH, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard, Instructor and Primary care provider
265. Helena Kennedy Collin, MD
266. Nepantla Canizzo, MPH student
267. Sanju Nembang, Administrator for federally qualified health care for unhoused program
268. Carolyn Matheson, Nurse Practitioner
269. Rose Molina, MD, MPH, B
270. Veronica Lopez Gousset, MPH student
271. Claudia Lopez Boston
272. Marybeth Campbell, Worcester Community Action Council, CEO
273. Travis Henderson, LICSW
274. Jim O’Connell, MD
275. Samantha Rawlins-Pilgrim, MD, MSc
276. Samantha Truong, MD, OBGYN
277. Janet Donovan, JD, Attorney
278. Malak Rafla, MD, Psychiatrist
279. Lichelle Bradshaw, MSW, LCSW, Emergency Department Social Worker
280. Marguerite Beiser, ANP-BC, AAHIVS
281. Rev. Dr. J Anthony Lloyd, Greater Framingham Community Church Pastor
282. Stephanie Tavarez, LMHC
283. Christina Cavanaro, RN, MSN
284. Nicole Driscoll, Resource Specialist
285. Ana Nealon, Behavioral Health Clinician
286. Aaron Price, LICSW, Clinical Social Worker
287. Karina Morales Valvoline
287. Lauren Fedak, PMHNP, Psychiatric Nurse Pracitioner
288. Tenzin Chokki, Communications Manager
289. Sabetta Singh, MD, Chief medical Resident
290. Robert Fain, MD, Resident Physician
291. Dacise Jean-Simon, PPOC-BCH, Case Coordinator
292. Katie Hayward, LICSW, Social Worker
293. Rhiannon Snide, J.D., Staff Attorney
294. Colleen Laurence MD, MPH
295. Sarah Kiser, PNP-PC
296. Michael Yang, MD
297. Elisabeth King, RN
298. Alyssa Kamath, Case Manager
299. Shaina Rodriguez, Financial counselor for Mass Health insurance
300. Karen Sweeney Chun, PA-C, MPH
301. Roberta Jackson, Retired
302. Emily Piper, BSN, RN
303. Simon Paddock., BFA, MS, Educator
304. Donna Griffin
305. Susanae Glovacki, MSW, Metrowest Care Connection, Senior care coordinator
306. Genilce Santana, Metrowest Care Connection, Senior care coordinator
307. Simon Paddock, BFA / MS, Educator
308. Philip Dunn, JD, Retired, National Academy of Arbitrators, Labor/Management Arbitrator
309. Brittany Hansen, MD, MPH Resident Physician
310. Alex Papale, PT, DPT, Physical Therapist
311. Morgan Younkin, MD, MPH, Physician
312. Brad Kramer, One Family, Director of Public policy
313. Desiree Hartman, MSW, Senior Program Coordiantor
314. Tulaja Kumari Dahal, Public welfare student
315. Lenore Azaroff, MD, Physician
316. Jaime Matorras, LMHC, Mental health Counselor
317. Jayda Jones, MPH, Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity, Disability Rights Advocate
318. Clyde Lanford Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H, SJPCHC, BWH Global Community Health Advisor
319. Brett Lewis, MD, Resident Physician
320. Heloisa Galvão, Executive Director, Brazilian Women’s Group
321. Angela Kelly, LMHC, Boston Immigration Justice Accompaniment Network LMHC
322. Samantha Wolfe, CAAS, Lead Community Organizer
323. Mario Paredes, J.D., Policy Advisor
324. Renata Mauriz, MA, Director of Immigrant Services
325. Sarah Bayer, LICSW,
326. Elizabeth Veillette, M.Ed., Resource and Employment Navigator for a large shelter system
327. LewFinfer, MA Action for Justice, Director
328. Leena Aurora, Health Equity Manager
329. Maria Pia Terra, APRN
330. Elsa Imbimbo, MD, MPH
331. Chuck McCallum, Software Engineer
332. Mahtowin Munro, United American Indians of New England, Co-leader
333. Raul Fernandez, EdD, Brookline for Racial Justice & Equity, Executive Director, Brookline for Racial Justice & Equity
334. Drexel Osborne, Program Associate
335. Dana Rous, LICSW Social Worker
336. Miller Miller, LICSW, Lynn Rapid Response Network, Immigrant Outreach Program Director
337. Diana Santiago, JD, MPH, Massachusetts Advocates for Children, Legal Director
338. David Gibbs, J.D., Community Action Agency of Somerville, Inc., Executive Director
339. Rohit Chandra, M.D., Psychiatrist
340. Sarah Gertz, Casa Esperanza, Executive Communications Manager
341. Miriam Berro Krugman, MBA, MPP, MA Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Research and Policy Associate
342. Madeline Poage, Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Director of Development and Communications
343. Marjory Castillo Rosario, Executive Office Coordinator
344. Laura Perras, Director of Communications
345. Obelle Pluviose, Savesouls INC, Chief Executive Officer
346. Laura Sullivan, MD, Family Medicine Physician
347. Caitlyn Patton, LICS, Family therapist
348. Doug Smith, The Right to Immigration Institute, Legal Director
349. Alejandro Bracamontes, Open Door Immigration Services, Executive Director
350. Lara Jackson, MPH, Director
351. Maria Ortiz, Case Manger/Administrative Assistant
352. Michelle Nadow, MS, DotHouse Health, CEO
353. Emily Sherwood, MPA, Retired Deputy Commissioner of Child, Youth and Family Services for the Mass. Dept. of Mental Health, 2016–2021
354. Neekita Bajaj, Patient Benefits Coordinator
355. Jessica Evans, LCSW, Casa Esperanza, Inc.Chief Operating Officer
356. Samantha Lino, Municipal Employee, Select Board Assistant
357. Samantha Lino, Town Employee Department assistant
358. Adam Haber, PhD, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Assistant Professor
359. John Slinn, MSW candidate, Intensive Case Manager
360. Cassie Hurd, Material Aid and Advocacy Program, Executive Director
361. Jill Buchanan
362. Laura Maslow-Armand, J.D. Ph.D., Staff attorney
363. William Tanner
364 Jennifer Kasper, MD, MPH, Physician
365. Lauren Shebairo, LICSW, MPH, De Novo Center for Justice and Healing, Clinical Director
366. Beth Floor
367. Deidre Alessio, RN NP
368. Sarah Brady, MSW/LISCW, Social worker
369. Luciano Paskevicius, Lowell Alliance Family Advocate
370. Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, PhD, MPH, Boston University, Research Associate Professor
371. James Cordero, Boston Democratic Socialists of America
