Lee Biernbaum
for Town Meeting
About Me
I moved to Brookline following graduate school and made it my forever home. I've both rented and owned apartments and live car-free in a walkup rowhouse that cannot legally be built in Brookline anymore.
I am the parent of two children at the Ruffin Ridley School and am a long-time Brookline election worker. My professional life focuses on transportation policy working in both the public and private sectors. My policy interests are the overlap of transportation, land use, and social justice.
I am a co-founder and Board Member of Brookline for Everyone.
Housing Affordability and Zoning Reform
Racial and Social Justice
Improved Transit and Multi-modal Transportation Options
Addressing the Climate Crisis
Miriam Aschkenasy, Select Board
Chris Dempsey,
Candidate for State Auditor,
Fm Transportation Board, TMMJonathan Klein,
Housing Advisory Board, TMMAmanda Zimmerman,
Bicycle Advisory Committee, TMMMarissa Vogt,
Pedestrian Advisory Committee, TMMScott Englander,
Fm Transportation Board, TMMC. Scott Ananian, TMM
Kate Becker, TMM
Eric Hyett, TMM
Lisa Shatz, TMM
Isaac Silberberg, TMM
Vena Priestly, TMM
Experience
12+ years in public service;
Federal and State governmentLead petitioner for 2015 WA19 (Olympics)
Co-founder and Board Member, Brookline for Everyone
TransitMatters Advisory Committee Member
Graduate degrees in Political Economy and Economics
Why I'm Running
Brookline is an amazing place to live. Just a few steps outside of my apartment, I am surrounded by friendly neighbors, inviting shops, delicious restaurants, parks and playgrounds, wonderful schools, walkable streets and public transit.
Brookline has real challenges. We have a housing crisis. Our infrastructure needs repair and replacement. Climate change presents an alarming list of problems. Social and racial changes are rolling across the country, bitterly resisted by those made uncomfortable by realizations that the status quo did not work for everyone.
Brookline is an amazing place to live, but that does not allow us to rest on our laurels. We have hard work to do to maintain what is great about Brookline and to ensure it can become a better place for those it has not always been amazing.
I am running for Town Meeting because I want to do this hard work for Brookline.
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