Representative Liz Miranda is the State Representative of the 5th Suffolk and is running for State Senate in the 2nd Suffolk. She is a community organizer, former youth worker, and entrepreneur who ran for office in 2018 to center those who have struggled when the government left us out of the conversation. Propelled to act after gun violence took the life of her brother, Representative Miranda has been a tireless fighter for the constituents of the 5th Suffolk, and families across the Commonwealth.
Liz Miranda has visited over 200 incarcerated residents of the Commonwealth to center their voices in policy responses to mass incarceration. Working with the survivor-led MASC coalition, Liz filed legislation to end solitary confinement in Massachusetts prisons. After her advocacy, DOC committed to ending solitary confinement over the next three years, but Liz knows that even one more day in solitary confinement is dangerous and inhumane for incarcerated residents, and has stood with Rep. Brandy Fluker Oakley to fight for an immediate end to solitary confinement.