Born and raised in Boston, and educated in all Boston Public Schools, Andrea Campbell went on to graduate from Princeton University and UCLA Law School. She began her career at a nonprofit in Roxbury, providing free legal services to students and their parents on education matters, including school discipline and special education needs. She has worked as legal counsel in both the public and private sectors, and before embarking on her run for City Council, served as deputy legal counsel for Governor Deval Patrick. Ms. Campbell  was elected as the District 4 Boston City Councilor in 2015. At the start of her second term, she was unanimously elected Boston City Council President by her colleagues. She is the first African-American woman to serve in this role.  Andrea began her first term by chairing and expanding the Council’s Committee on Public Safety to include Criminal Justice in an effort to bring important conversations around re-entry services for returning citizens, solitary confinement, and the school-to-prison pipeline. As one of the lead sponsors of the Community Preservation Act, she led the effort for its successful passage in 2016, which will generate millions of dollars annually for affordable housing, historic preservation, and open space in the City of Boston. And, in 2017 she secured the first-ever dedicated line item in the City’s budget to specifically fund youth development programming and youth serving organizations. Andrea continues to focus on issues of public safety and criminal justice, affordable housing, and racial equity initiatives.