Vote May 4: Zoe Lynn for Select Board

I am so proud to endorse Zoe Lynn for Select Board, and I hope you’ll join me by voting for her this coming May 4.

Zoe will bring to the Board the strategic leadership, management skills, responsiveness, and inclusivity that will enable Brookline to grapple with some of the toughest challenges the Town has faced. These include a fiscal crunch, a housing affordability crisis, systemic racism we can’t seem to shake, and a climate emergency. So many of our residents and small businesses face unprecedented hardship in the wake of the pandemic. In this election, we have a choice: stay mired in the status quo, or recognize right now that for change to happen, we need to get out and vote for it.

I spent a lot of time collaborating with Zoe on several of the 10 working teams she led in 2019 while she served as the Town’s first Sustainability Program Administrator. I have seen up close what an effective leader she is. I was wowed by the passion and skill Zoe brought to the job, truly listening to residents with diverse perspectives from across the community. Zoe managed to forge an actionable consensus that didn’t compromise on ambitious goals. Ultimately, she brought about concrete actions across our Town government. Zoe worked with staff, the Select Board, committees, members of the Advisory Committee, Town Meeting, and community. As others have attested, Zoe leads with energy and vision — in a way that I rarely see in Brookline.

Brookline often has a reputation — not completely undeserved — for being strong on talk, but feeble on meaningful action. We see election promises go unfulfilled. We see Town Meeting trying to make up for an executive leadership vacuum — something for which a large legislative body that meets twice a year is extremely ill-suited.

Zoe Lynn’s inclusive, responsive, and outcome-oriented leadership style — not to mention her skill in transformational change management — epitomizes what we need on our Select Board at this moment, and as a Town in the years to come. Please join me and others in supporting and voting for her: Visit votezoeforbrookline.com.

Scott Englander
Elm Street
Town Meeting Member, Precinct 6