Representative Liz Miranda is the State Senator of the 2nd Suffolk. She is a community organizer, former youth worker, and entrepreneur who ran for office in 2018 to center those who have struggled when the government left us out of the conversation. Propelled to act after gun violence took the ...
Read moreRepresentative Liz Miranda is the State Senator of the 2nd Suffolk. She is a community organizer, former youth worker, and entrepreneur who ran for office in 2018 to center those who have struggled when the government left us out of the conversation. Propelled to act after gun violence took the life of her brother, Representative Miranda has been a tireless fighter for her constituents and families across the Commonwealth.
In the legislature, Rep. Miranda was a lead author in the police reform omnibus bill that passed in 2021. After her decades of advocacy for gun violence prevention, losing her brother catalyzed her to run for elected office. Her lived experience as a survivor of homicide drove Rep. Miranda to become a legislative champion for violence prevention funding, which has tripled since her first term. She has passed legislation to provide enforceable tools to protect the life and health of environmental justice communities, improve maternal health outcomes of Black women and birthing people, extend postpartum health insurance coverage, end solitary confinement in state prisons, and ensure vaccine equity in the communities most impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Most recently, she delivered an additional $10 million in COVID-19 relief funding to the most-impacted Black and Brown-owned small businesses. As the daughter of West African immigrants, Representative Miranda has been a tireless advocate for immigrant justice and has fought for the Safe Communities Act and the Work and Family Mobility Act.
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