For more than twenty years, Katjana been a leader in working and advocating for basic transit infrastructure to enable walkable, transit-oriented, mixed-use development in Somerville, increasing access to jobs while decreasing traffic and emissions. Katjana will continue her leadership as mayor, to create for a connected network of accessible, complete, safe streets that works for Somerville.
Affordability is a two-sided coin: one side is how to address the rising cost of living; the other side is how to nurture equitable opportunities for better jobs and incomes. For Somerville to thrive, we need to work together both for affordable living costs and for good jobs. Katjana has a proven record of working successfully toward both goals, as a nonprofit administrator, volunteer, and city councilor. Learn more about Katjana's leadership on affordability here.
Katjana has always been an inclusive leader, but she also knows we must work beyond inclusion toward more genuine and permanent equity for vulnerable communities. As City Councilor, she has been a leader in creating anti-poverty measures and efforts to lift people of color, women, and immigrants, and to re-envision policing. In over three decades of public service, Katjana has been a leader on many initiatives to create equity and improve safety. Learn more about Katjana's leadership on equity and safety here.
For the past two decades, Katjana has been a pathbreaking leader on sustainability and environmental justice in Somerville for two decades, has worked to combat climate change, reduce solid waste, and to increase open space and better develop climate resiliency. Katjana was the author and sole sponsor of the 2019 Somerville Green New Deal Resolution, she sponsored the City’s Zoning Code requirement for LEED Platinum level efficiency, she authored and sponsored Somerville's Native Trees and Planting Ordinance. Read more about Katjana's leadership on environmental issues here.
