Growing up in Roxbury, Andrea’s life was filled with instability. When Andrea was eight months old, she lost her mother to a car accident while going to visit her father in prison. She and her brothers bounced around – living with relatives and sometimes in foster care – until her father got out of prison when she was eight years old, and she met him for the first time.
Andrea and her family relied on public housing and food assistance while her grandmother struggled with alcoholism. Her two brothers sadly cycled in and out of the prison system. She lost her twin brother Andre, when he passed away while in the custody of the Department of Corrections as a pre-trial detainee.
Combating the climate crisis and protecting the environment are top priorities for Andrea, and she will fight for environmental justice across the state. Every resident deserves the opportunity to live in a healthy and safe community, especially those in poor, rural communities and communities of color who suffer the worst environmental devastation and are disproportionately harmed by pollution.
As Attorney General, Andrea will ensure that Massachusetts is climate resilient, and that no community endures a disproportionate share of environmental pollution and corresponding health impacts.