Kim Janey

While I am proud to be Boston`s first women mayor and the first mayor of color I am also very proud to know that I will not be the last.

As I reflect back on two prints that I hung in my office and as we lace up our sneakers to finish this race, and you know I will be wearing Converse, we must continue to run toward justice, equity and love. Just like Vice President Kamala…

I never even imagined I would see a black mayor in my lifetime in the city of Boston.

As a girl growing up in Boston I was nurtured by a family who believed in me and surrounded by good neighbors who knew my name. It was my village. But when I was just 11 years old school bussing rolled into my life. I was forced on to the…

My life’s work from education advocacy to leading the city council has been centered around making sure every child has the opportunity to learn and succeed in a more just city than the one I grew up in.

I stand on many shoulders as the first -- the first black mayor and the first woman mayor, and I wanted to pay homage to those who have come before me.

I had rocks and racial slurs thrown at my bus simply for attending school while black.

We have a lot of work to do when it comes to combating structural racism in our city.

I will bring my lived experience and my unique perspective as a black woman to this work.

It is incredibly important that we make sure we`re getting the vaccine out equitably, that we are reaching all communities and lifting up those who have been hardest hit.