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Eugenia was a public high school teacher in the Bronx, at the Fordham Leadership Academy for Business and Technology. She taught English as a Second Language, History and led a business program. In law school, Eugenia chaired the Rikers Island Juvenile Education Program, and headed the Prisoners Rights Advocates.

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CPS deserves teachers and staff who are well-paid, respected, and whose point-of-view informs policy decisions. 

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Above: Portrait of Eugenia as drawn by one of her students. (No pictures from her time in Rikers as cameras were not welcome during jail visits.)​

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​Afterschool advocacy: 

While this work was ended when she took her job as Head of Constituent Services, Eugenia co-led sustained, year-long afterschool advocacy resulting in Cambridge adding 170 afterschool seats for 2023-24, and City Council unanimously passing and co-sponsoring a policy order to fully meet demand in three years. After her advocacy raised these issues, the City increased afterschool staff salaries, and gave low-income students lottery priority (both in summer 2022). 

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Making change often comes down to not one bright, shiny idea, but staying relentlessly on top of the reports, data, actions, and meetings of officials making decisions. 

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Above: Eugenia being interviewed about afterschool for an NBC Boston segment. (It was an extremely humid day!)

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Currently, Eugenia is on leave from her job as Director of Constituent Services in City Hall.

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In this position, under Mayor Simmons, she works with Cambridge residents on any and all problems — ranging from traffic tickets or neighbor disputes, to considerable work trying to keep residents housed. She works with many homeless individuals and, unfortunately, families. Our housing crisis makes Cambridge living extremely difficult for everyone, but most particularly low-income families. 

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Previously, she consulted on strategy and communications for the Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition, Cambridge Volunteer Clearinghouse, and Resilience Education (a nonprofit helping incarcerated learners). She also researched and wrote blog posts for college admissions coaching startup Prompt. She sometimes wrote comms for the restaurant her husband co-owns in Inman Square, Puritan & Co. 

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Eugenia was also the Kendall Square Association's Director of Marketing and Events. A Cambridge resident, she's served on the Board of Margaret Fuller House, and represented a family facing eviction for De Novo. She served on the board of Alef-Bet Child Care when Maxine was there. Cambridge's storied Brattle Theater has featured her on its podcast pointing out that the great Marilyn Monroe did indeed write her own memoirs.

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Bilingualism: Eugenia grew up in Belgium, speaking French at school and English at home - she greatly values bilingual education, understands how hard it can be to learn a new language in a school context, and supports all children speaking a second language by the time they graduate. 

 

Outside work, Eugenia enjoys adventures with her husband Ming-Tai and young children Cassius (8) and Maxine (6). 

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Left: Ming, Maxine, Cassius & Eugenia at City Hall last Halloween. 

Right: Ming and Eugenia came to DHSP Windsor Preschool for Maxine's "child of the week." ​