I was honored to be invited by the Latino American Student Association and officials at Salem State to be the keynote speaker at this year’s annual Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration.

In my keynote address, I spoke about my career highlights and paid tribute to the Latina…

Beautifully said by my friend Rep. Jack Patrick Lewis. We owe it to the children and parents of this generation to further protect them from the scourge of gun violence.

I too will always choose the lives of children and educators over weapons of war and ghost guns. Proud to support An…

Yeah the top 6 looks really good. KP looks like a great fit in Boston!

It's always good to be on campus at Salem State with our students through the Berry Institute of Politics in civic discourse. I had the pleasure of serving on an informative panel that featured: My high school classmate Shantel Alix of the North Shore CDC t and my former rockstar intern…

I recently had the pleasure of joining my colleagues Sen. Joan B. Lovely @SenBruceTarr Jerry Parisella Committee To Elect Kristin Kassner @sallykerans4repad the Northshore Delegation for a legislative briefing on the state of the Topsfield Fair. It was a great opportunity to hear from Salem’s very own…

It was such a pleasure to be able to join my colleagues at Latinos for Education at the State of Latino Education earlier this month. This annual convening brings together stakeholders from across our state to both celebrate and advocate. During the event, I had the pleasure of joining…

As this week comes to a close I want to express my sincere gratitude and thanks to Seth Moulton Elizabeth Warren Ed Markey and their incredible staff for helping us bring home these Salem residents who were in Israel immediately following the terrorist attacks by Hamas. Multiple family…

This is inhumane. As was the order to try to move 1 million Gazan’s in 24 hours and to close essential utilities that would preserve lives of the innocent. War inevitably becomes a humanitarian crisis. The degree to which that happens falls on leaders of legitimate states. We…

We averaged about 70,000 visitors per day in downtown #SalemMA last weekend.

We have 5,300 public parking spaces.

Do the math. Ditch the car.

Congratulations to my dear colleague Priscila Sousa on receiving La Promesa award! A well deserved honor

My heart for continues to be with my friends in the Jewish community who have to bear the real fear of the threat to their lives and existence as a result of a call for “jihad” by the former leader of Hamas against all Jewish people today.

This will no doubt lead to violence…

Thank you Secretary Antony Blinken for uplifting the importance of humanitarian aid for Palestinian’s residing in Gaza during your meeting with Israeli officials. The ability of innocent civilians to access aid during war is essential. Far too many innocent lives have already been loss…

This is completely unacceptable. Our Palestinian American neighbors should be treated with dignity and respect. This heinous hate crime is abhorrent, and I hope that the perpetrators are brought swiftly to justice.

The rise in both antisemitism, and Islamophobia must be…