Alanna Mallon - #1 Cambridge City Council

As founder of the Cambridge Weekend Backpack Program, which sends meals home with hundreds of food insecure students every week, I have a proven track record of taking concrete action that produces results.

As your City Councillor, I am committed to Cambridge by empowering our community to make this City better for everyone. I love working, living, and raising my children here, and I am honored to be serving the residents of Cambridge.

Re-Elect Alanna #1 on November 5th!

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Serving my 2nd term on the Cambridge City Council as Vice-Mayor. Listen to my podcast w/colleague & Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui here 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Amplifying the work of this young artist in Cambri

Amplifying the work of this young artist in Cambridge @itsjakegoodchildwow. A pencil sketch of #GeorgeFloyd overlaid with the names of Black men & women who have been victims of police violence. Absolutely stunning work: “Im just a 20 year old artist from Massachusetts, so there’s not much I can do to change the world. But if I can make you remember #georgefloyd for at least one more day, then I hope I’ve done my part. Don’t let the fight die out ✊️.
#art #artistsoninstagram #drawing #protest #blacklivesmatter”

Please share widely - this event has been cancelle

Please share widely - this event has been cancelled for this evening by the organizers to keep people safe.

Over the last week I have been spending more time

Over the last week I have been spending more time listening to those Black voices in our community, and across our nation, about the role of police departments in the collective trauma of the black and brown community.

I have been listening to the community over the last 2+ years, but even more urgently in the last week about what we need to do as a community to reform Police Departments and the criminal justice system as a whole, not just here but across the country. Dismantling systemic and institutionalized racism is the work we must do as elected officials, please know that I am committed to that work.

During my time in office, I have been working hard to ensure more transparency with Police interactions by pushing for a public dashboard of police interactions by race. Having this data available to the public and also to direct superiors can help identify problem areas and officers. As we discussed at the budget hearings this week, we are expected to have that up shortly. It will be the first in the nation, and I look forward to it being transformative, and paving the way for other police departments to also have that level of critical accountability.

My colleagues and I will be putting forward and discussing other interventions related to police transparency next Monday. Additionally, on the agenda tomorrow evening is funding for the City to fund an outreach worker from a non-profit based in Chelsea called ROCA to work with Cambridge residents who have been recently released from prison or who are gang involved to reduce recidivism, and move residents away from the criminal justice system. Funding this work through a community partner helps to ensure we are not creating more areas where the police department is interacting with residents who have already been involved with the criminal justice system. In this way, we must shift funding to the community partners to do this critical work in our communities.

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See you Monday #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorge

See you Monday #BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorge

At our special meeting yesterday, the City Council

At our special meeting yesterday, the City Council had the opportunity to hear about the City's upcoming shared streets pilot. As you can see above, the pilot will include three key connector streets, helping us build a network of healthy, shared streets to major destinations throughout Cambridge and into Somerville and Boston. Although they may not appear to be completely connected on the map, they're near areas like Harvard Yard and Cambridge Common, which provide safe access to other parts of the networks. As shared streets, they would be primarily used by pedestrians and cyclists, but would be open to local, essential vehicular traffic as well. After an educational campaign is launched, informative signage is sourced, and valuable community feedback is gathered, we can expect this pilot to launch in mid-June. Several members of the City Council, myself included, have been pushing for this over these past few weeks to ensure our residents have the space they need to physically distance, and I am excited to see progress finally being made. Re-imagining our streets has to be a priority for Cambridge, so I'm looking forward to this pilot, and to expanding these efforts to support small businesses with extra space for outdoor dining as well.

The newest episode of #WomenAreHere is up! This we

The newest episode of #WomenAreHere is up! This week @mayorsiddiqui and I discuss the murder of George Floyd, #COVID_19 updates, Safe & Healthy Shared Streets Pilot, the "Pick it Up Cambridge" campaign, summer meal sites, and Porter Square Books donation. Link 🔗 in bio! Recorded by @cctvcambridge

On Memorial Day, we honor the brave men and women

On Memorial Day, we honor the brave men and women of Cambridge who died in service of our country, and the Gold Star families that they left behind. Although we can’t honor them together today, we have decorated the lawn of City Hall in their memory on this #memorialday 🇺🇸

Having Memorial Drive open today for physically di

Having Memorial Drive open today for physically distanced biking and walking was the boost we all needed, and showed that even on the most gorgeous of days (and on a long weekend to boot) it can be closed safely. Cambridge needs more of these street closures to provide safe and healthy places to play, safe routes to work, as well as providing space to our restaurants so they can reopen. Reimagining our public ways is going to be critical for to protect us during our gradual reopening and economic recovery. I am looking forward to the City’s presentation on Thursday on how we can implement all three.

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Read the Final Report and Recommendations of the Mayor’s Arts Task Force

Alanna Mallon | October 1, 2019October 1, 2019

For 9 months, I was fortunate enough to collaborate with working artists, leaders in our creative economy, nonprofit partners, and City officials to examine the barriers to artists living and…

Moving Forward After the Affordable Housing Overlay Vote

Alanna Mallon | September 10, 2019September 10, 2019

During my first term as a City Councilor, Cambridge residents have often come to me expressing legitimate concerns about the affordable housing crisis. The single mothers in need of emergency…

My Suggested Amendments to the Overlay

Alanna Mallon | July 30, 2019July 31, 2019

The Affordable Housing Overlay is a policy tool that the City Council is discussing as one way to alleviate the affordable housing crisis. This proposal could allow our affordable housing…

Housing and the Environment: It’s Not a Binary Conversation

Alanna Mallon | June 18, 2019June 18, 2019

Crisis is a word that describes the two of the most pressing issues we face today – the skyrocketing cost of housing and the current climate emergency, but at a…

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