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Burhan Azeem's family immigrated to the United States from Pakistan when he was a kid. They moved several times, and he's spoken about how, as a brown Muslim immigrant living in the USA after 9-11, Cambridge was the first place he felt welcome.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from MIT and speaks three languages. He has studied sustainability and is passionate about mitigating climate change and its impacts. Professionally, he is an engineer.

In addition to canvassing, he has helped residents register to vote and has also been a volunteer EMT. A renter, he served on the board of A Better Cambridge, and founded a housing nonprofit called Abundant Housing Massachusetts.

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Brought up in Cambridge, Denise Simmons has been active in the Cambridge community for many years.

Denise Simmons previously served 2 terms as mayor, which made her both the first Black, openly-lesbian mayor in the United States and the first Black woman to be mayor in Massachusetts. In the 2017 election, she was one of two candidates elected outright on the first count of ballots.

", "img_url": "/static/headshots/denise-simmons.fc895ad546b7.png", "img_alt": "headshot of candidate", "comment": "", "order": null}, {"slug": "doug-brown", "name": "Doug Brown", "blurb": "", "img_url": "/static/headshots/blank.a907d8c28e9e.png", "img_alt": "headshot of candidate", "comment": "", "order": null}, {"slug": "federico-muchnik", "name": "Federico Muchnik", "blurb": "", "img_url": "/static/headshots/blank.a907d8c28e9e.png", "img_alt": "headshot of candidate", "comment": "", "order": null}, {"slug": "frantz-pierre", "name": "Frantz Pierre", "blurb": "

A first-time candidate for City Council, Franz Pierre is a lifelong Cambridge resident and attended Cambridge Rindge And Latin.

", "img_url": "/static/headshots/frantz-pierre.f7a08b5d529b.png", "img_alt": "headshot of candidate", "comment": "", "order": null}, {"slug": "gregg-moree", "name": "Gregg Moree", "blurb": "

A lifelong Cambridge resident and a graduate of CRLS, Gregg Moree is a perennial candidate, having run in every council election since 2007. In 2015, he received 75 #1 votes, and was defeated in the 5th round of counting with 80 votes total. In 2019, he was eliminated in the 3rd count with 47 votes total.

Gregg Moree is a strong believer in a Second Bill of Rights, including the rights to medical care and employment. He frequently points out that a relative of his worked on the Second Bill of Rights.

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Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler has lived in Cambridge since 2017, where he also works at a land policy think tank. He's been politically active for several years, including working with Our Revolution Cambridge and the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America), and being a field and operations manager for a mayoral campaign in New Haven, Connecticut.

He graduated from the College of the Atlantic in 2014 with a BA Human Ecology. Before moving to Cambridge, he worked at consultancy groups in Portland, Maine and the New York City area.

He also speaks three languages.

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Named the Best Bartender in Boston by the Boston Magazine twice, Joe McGuirk has spent several decades tending Cambridge and Boston bars. He grew up in the area, and wants to continue living and serving in Cambridge - something he says is difficult for working families given the housing and coronavirus crises.

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Born and raised in Cambridge, Marc McGovern has previously served as mayor and was elected to the school committee 4 times.

He was first elected to that office in 2003, and re-elected in 2007, 2009, and 2011. He is also active in the Cambridge Democratic City Committee.

Outside of politics, he is a trained social worker, and when first elected he continued to work part-time as a Clinical Support Social Worker for Farr Academy, a Cambridge school for students grades 7-12 with a range of emotional and learning problems.

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Patty Nolan grew up in Chicago and Connecticut. She first moved to Cambridge to attend Harvard, graduating in 1980. She then lived and worked in New York City, and attended Yale for business school. She has worked both in corporate consulting and the non-profit sector.

Patty returned to Cambridge in 1991, and has been actively involved in local politics since then, for instance serving on the Board of Cambridge School Volunteers. She was first elected to the school committee in 2005. In 2017, she was re-elected to the school committee in the first round of voting.

She is a landlord; she rents out the second unit in her two-family home.

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A longtime cambridge resident, Paul Toner lives in the home of his great-grandfather. He is a graduate of Cambridge's Matignon High School, as well as BU, UMass Boston, and Suffolk university.

Paul Toner has run for City Council once before, in 2017. He was vice president and then president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association from 2006 until 2014, and was president of the Cambridge Teachers Association from 2001-2006. Prior to being in leadership, he was a 7th and 8th grade teacher from 1993 to 2001 at the Harrington Elementary School in Cambridge.

Recently, he was an Executive Director at Teach Plus, a non-profit focused on training teachers to lead to education policy and a supporter of teacher and student evaluation systems.

", "img_url": "/static/headshots/paul-toner.5845e50beddb.png", "img_alt": "headshot of candidate", "comment": "", "order": null}, {"slug": "peter-hsu", "name": "Peter Hsu", "blurb": "", "img_url": "/static/headshots/blank.a907d8c28e9e.png", "img_alt": "headshot of candidate", "comment": "", "order": null}, {"slug": "robert-winters", "name": "Robert Winters", "blurb": "", "img_url": "/static/headshots/blank.a907d8c28e9e.png", "img_alt": "headshot of candidate", "comment": "", "order": null}, {"slug": "sumbul-siddiqui", "name": "Sumbul Siddiqui", "blurb": "

Sumbul Siddiqui's family immigrated to the United States from Pakistan when she was 2, and they moved to Cambridge when they got a lottery spot in Cambridge's affordable housing system. She is a graduate of CRLS, Brown University, and Northwestern.

While attending CRLS, she co-founded the Cambridge Youth Council (then the Cambridge Youth Involvement Subcommittee), a way for students to engage with city government and policy.

In addition to serving on the council, she is an Attorney at Northeast Legal Aid, a nonprofit that provides legal assistance. Prior to her election, she was on the board of the Cambridge School Volunteers and was a member of Cambridge's Human Services Commission.

She and Alanna Mallon have been producing a podcast together since January 2018.

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