On Tuesday, November 8th, Liz Miranda was elected to serve as the next State Senator of the 2nd Suffolk District, the seat of Black political power in Boston, representing neighborhoods in Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, Hyde Park, Mission Hill, Jamaica Plain, South End, and the Fenway.

Prior to serving in the Massachusetts Senate, Senator Miranda served two terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In her first term in the House, she was a lead author in the police reform omnibus bill that passed in 2021. She has passed legislation to provide enforceable tools to protect the life and health of environmental justice communities, improve maternal health outcomes of Black women and birthing people, extend postpartum health insurance coverage, end solitary confinement in state prisons, and ensure vaccine equity in the communities most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently, she delivered an additional $10 million dollars in COVID-19 relief funding to most-impacted Black and Brown-owned small businesses. As the daughter of Cabo Verdean immigrants, Senator Miranda has been a tireless advocate for immigrant justice and has led on the safe communities act as well as the work and family mobility act.

In 2017, Senator Miranda lost her 28-year-old brother, Michael Miranda, to gun violence. After her decades long advocacy for gun violence prevention, losing her brother was a catalyst in her entrance to electoral politics. Embracing her lived experience as a survivor of homicide, Senator Miranda has been a champion for violence prevention funding, which has tripled since her first term.

Prior to serving in the Massachusetts Legislature, Senator Miranda was a non-profit executive, entrepreneur, and community organizer, which began as a youth organizer in the Dudley Triangle, fighting to rebuild her community and protect land. Her professional roles have included serving as the Executive Director for the Hawthorne Youth and Community Center and Director of Youth Opportunity Development at Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI).

In 2021, she was inducted into the Academy of Women Achievers of YW Boston, received Progressive Legislator of the Year Award by Progressive Massachusetts, Emerge Women of the Year, Boston Magazine’s Best Leader in 2021, was named one of Boston’s Most Impactful Black Women, and served as Wellesley College’s commencement speaker.

Senator Miranda is a Wellesley College alumna and proud graduate of Boston Public Schools, graduating from the John D O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science. She is an active member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., Boston Alumnae Chapter and the Wellesley Club of Boston.

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