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I’m asking for your number one vote because I want Cambridge to be a sanctuary in fact as well as in policy. I know what it looks like when a school has been systemically ignored for years, and I never, ever want to see that happen to another kid or teacher again. I believe that we have to design our systems so that our high needs students — students with IEPs, from a low income background, and English language learners — face the lowest barriers to the highest quality education. And as a professional communicator and media maker, I know that solving issues like our enrollment policies, understanding how building renovations intersect with existing and upcoming programming, transportation policy, and ensuring a more accountable school committee will require a real way to solicit and act on public feedback. Our community must create that expectation and practice so that all voices in our city can be heard. This election season, I am asking for your vote so that I can help to rebuild that trust between the School Committee and the public at large.
“It is not fine that one school is disproportionately wealthy and one school is disproportionately poor. That is not fine. It’s just not appropriate,” [Anne Coburn] said. “The last five years have had so [many] institutional problems, institutional turnover…that the day-to-day business has not been appropriately managed.”
“Kennedy-Longfellow closing proves new blood needed on School Committee, challenger says.”
Meg Richards, Cambridge Day, July 14, 2025
“I am deeply, deeply grateful to the Cambridge public school system for teaching my daughter so well that she could read a speech that she wrote herself to the people voting to close down her school,” Coburn said.
“CPS Took Away Her School. Now, Anne Coburn Wants a Seat on the School Committee.”
Ayaan Ahman and Claire A. Michal, Harvard Crimson, September 12, 2025
“The School Committee closed Kennedy-Longfellow elementary school earlier this year — one of the most controversial decisions of the term, and a defining issue in the election. The school, which primarily served English language learners, low-income students, and individuals with disabilities, closed due to underperformance and underenrollment.”
“School Committee Incumbents Challenged Over Superintendent Search, K-Lo at CEA Forum.”
Ann E. Gombiner and Claire A. Michal, Harvard Crimson, September 11, 2025
Zora’s World
A snapshot of a family's continual support and encouragement of their 11-year-old daughter, Zora, as she discovers who she is.
A short film by Aurora Sousanis and Kai Wong, Fall 2024. (TRT: 9 minutes, 20 seconds.)