Alice Wolf

state representative, MA

Alice K. Wolf is the State Representative from the 25th Middlesex District in Cambridge. She was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1996 after serving the people of Cambridge as Mayor, Vice Mayor, City Councillor and School Committee Member. Representative Wolf's priorities include education, equal rights for gays and lesbians, affordable housing, health care, immigrants rights, gender equity, and serving her constituents. Representative Wolf has received numerous distinguished honors and awards including the 2007 Byron Rushing Freedom of Religion Award from the Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry; the 2006 Massachusetts Family Planning Association Leadership Award; the 2005 Champions of Children Award from Massachusetts Advocates for Children; Citizens for Public Schools Activist for Public Schools Award in 2005; and the 2005 Early Education Leadership Award from the Massachusetts Association of Community Partnerships for Children. Born in Austria, Representative Wolf came to America at the age of five with her family, fleeing the Nazi regime. She earned a B.S. from Simmons College and later an M.P.A. from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In 2001, she received an honorary Doctor of Education degree from Wheelock College.