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Lee Biernbaum
About Me
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 former 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
Ensuring we Implement the Rodent Control Action Plan
Helping Town Meeting and Committees reflect the actual demographics of Brookline
Standing up for our civil servants
Standing up to bullies in Town Meeting
Opposing corruption in Town Meeting
Organizations
Brookline for Everyone
Progressive Brookline
Townwide Officials
Mariah Nobrega, School Committee, Former Advisory Committee, Former TMM
Kevin MacKenzie, Chair of the Commission for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Community Relations, TMM
Eric Stone, Deputy Chair of the Shared Mobility Advisory Committee, TMM
Jonathan Klein, Housing Advisory Board, TMM
Katha Seidman, Commission for the Arts, TMM
C. Scott Ananian
Police Commissioners Advisory Board, Former Advisory Committee, TMMAmanda Zimmerman, Bicycle Advisory Committee, TMM
Miriam Aschkenasy, Former Select Board
Wendy Stahl, Former Chair of the Zero Emissions Advisory Board
Abby Swaine, Former Vice Chair of the Transportation Board, Former Chair of the Shared Use Mobility Committee
Experience
Experience
14+ years in public service;
Federal and State government20+ years in transportation policy
Co-founder and Former Board Member, Brookline for Everyone
Graduate degrees in Political Economy and Economics
Town Meeting Member.
Lead petitioner for 2015 WA19 (Olympics)
Why I'm Running
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. Our need to address social and racial issues at home have not changed in the face of backlash from MAGAs and locals who cannot understand how the the status quo does 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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