Meet the Candidates
State Representative Marjorie Decker (Incumbent)
Marjorie grew up in public housing here in Cambridge and found her voice as a student at CRLS, where she learned the importance of speaking up, getting involved, and advocating for what she believes in. She decided to run for office because families like hers were often talked about, but not talked with. Too many decisions were being made about families like hers without their voices at the table.
That experience continues to drive Marjorie's work every day. While working to make government improve people’s lives, she has had the privilege of securing millions of dollars for organizations that serve the community, including Food For Free, the Cambridge Community Center, the YWCA, and Cambridge Health Alliance. She has also fought for policies that expand access to health care, support working families, reduce poverty, improve mental health services, and create opportunity for more people. |
Evan MacKay (Challenger)
Evan MacKay is a union leader and organizer running to make Beacon Hill more transparent, accountable, and focused on delivering for working people. Evan grew up as a closeted LGBTQ+ kid in a conservative part of Florida. Evan visited their family in Massachusetts as a child, always hoping to move here. When they moved to Cambridge at 18, they found community and dignity, and a place where they could be themself and envision a future. Evan serves on Cambridge's LGBTQ+ commission as part of an inter-generational group protecting the future for people of all ages, backgrounds, and life experiences. As a grassroots organizer, Evan helped lead a campaign about Harvard’s non-payment of property taxes, contributing to a community win in the form of increased PILOT payments from Harvard to the City of Cambridge. Evan believes that we need to tax the rich to make the ultrawealthy pay their fair share, and that government should work for all people, not just the wealthy and well connected. Evan is running for State Representative because Massachusetts can be a state where every family can live with dignity and security, where everyone can afford a place to live, and where every worker has justice on the job.
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