Alanna Mallon is currently serving her second term on the Cambridge City Council and honored to be serving her first as Vice Mayor. Born and raised in Brockton, she has proudly called Cambridge her home since moving here in the summer of In , Alanna founded the Cambridge Weekend Backpack Program, organizing a unique way to not only address the hunger pains of these vulnerable students, but also establish strong relationships with their families and connect them to other vital community resources.
Through this effort, 70, meals were delivered to students who would have otherwise lost important nutrition. During her time serving as the Education Liaison to Mayor David Maher in , Alanna experienced first-hand how dedicated public service combined with strategic public policy can be an effective tool for positive change. Since January of , Alanna has worked at Food for Free, working closely on issues surrounding food insecurity for low-income communities across the Greater Boston area.
Building broad coalitions of support for meaningful solutions to the complex, deeply intertwined challenges facing our residents has been a natural extension of her previous work. This has enabled her to become an effective leader in municipal government as she tackles the issues most impacting our community. As Vice Mayor, Alanna is committed to empowering our community, and ensuring Cambridge is a welcoming, responsive place to all.
She is honored to serve the residents of Cambridge and looks forward to continuing to develop innovative ways to make our City the best it can be. She advocated for expanded, flexible COVID testing for all residents, while leading efforts with Mayor Siddiqui to create financial assistance and relief programs for local small businesses, non-profits, and Arts organizations, helping them stay afloat during unprecedented levels of economic depression.
When schools closed, she coordinated public meal sites to ensure no child went hungry, serving 70, meals in just the first three months, while facilitating book and child-sized mask giveaways, and advocating for City-funded at-home Internet plans to bridge the digital divide. By organizing a group of volunteers to secure vaccination appointments for the most vulnerable members of our community, she addresses the short-term public health needs of our community, while continuing to envision long-term efforts to bring vaccines directly to hard-hit neighborhoods.
