Jo has lived and worked in western Massachusetts since the late 1990s, arriving fresh out of New York City’s Hunter College School of Social Work where she focused on homelessness policy, prison reform, and earned an MSW.
Enough nuclear weapons currently exist to end human life on Earth forever. The United Nations has moved to address this existential threat and although the United States chooses to be a part of the problem, our Commonwealth should be a part of the solution. My resolution (S.1556, Resolutions relative to the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) declares the Commonwealth’s support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and directs the legislature to take action towards the elimination of all nuclear weapons. I have also introduced a Resolve (S.1555, Resolve providing for an investigation and study by a special commission relative to the existential threat posed by nuclear weapons to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) which creates a Commission to look into ways to protect the citizens of the Commonwealth from the threat of nuclear weapons and to work towards the total elimination of these weapons from all countries.