Volmar grew up in California and taught in a fifth-grade English-language immersion classroom in Oakland before moving to Cambridge 10 years ago, when her husband became a doctoral candidate at Harvard. Because her California teaching license wasn’t va …

Sutton grew up in upstate New York and went to college in Colorado, coming away with a degree in aerospace engineering and astrophysics. He was worked for a decade in the transportation industry managing large-scale operations, projects and facilities, …

Gregg Moree, 60, was born and raised in Cambridge and attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. His cites his uncle Joe Sakey – former director of the Cambridge Public Library – for his mentorship in teaching Moree people are “only truly rich when yo …

Okamoto, 19, originally from Portland, Ore., got her first experience with Cambridge when domestic violence and housing instability sent her east to “a safe place … I grew up thinking of Cambridge as a home, since my godmother lives here.” Now she is i …

Born and raised in the Mississippi Delta to Indian immigrants, Hari Pillai said he moved to New England because he knew his values and ideas would be welcome. “New England, in general, and Cambridge, in particular, has always attracted progressive thin …

Santos was born and raised in New Bedford and Dartmouth, the grandson of Portuguese immigrants. In high school, he covered sports for the school and local papers; while attending Northeastern University discovered another interest – politics. In 1986 h …

Toner is executive director of Teach Plus Massachusetts, where he works to engage and elevate the voices of teachers in local, state and national education policy, but started his career as a seventh- and eighth-grade social studies teacher at the Harr …

A resident since 2015, D’Ambrosio works as the producing artistic director of the Bridge Repertory Theater, a Cambridge nonprofit, and is an instructor in the Department of Music and Theater Arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She began …

Tim Toomey was born in Cambridge, raised in East Cambridge and lives on Sixth Street. He is a graduate of Matignon High School and earned a degree in government from Suffolk University in 1975. He was elected to the Cambridge School Committee in 1985, …

Siddiqui moved to the United States from Karachi, Pakistan, at the age of 2 with her parents and twin brother. Her family won a lottery to enter Cambridge’s affordable housing system, which placed them in Rindge Towers in North Cambridge and then in Ro …