Vote Zoe Lynn for Select Board on May 4th

Housing affordability is one example of a 'wicked' problem. It's complex, and interconnected: it is an economic problem; a racial justice problem; a transportation problem; a climate problem; a regional problem; and it is not just a subsidized housing problem, it is a “missing middle” problem. If we try to solve it from just one of these perspectives, we’re doomed to failure. To paraphrase Einstein, “You can’t solve a problem from the fragmented paradigms that created it.”

In Zoe Lynn, we would have a Select Board member who has demonstrated leadership and skill in addressing “wicked” problems (Google it - it’s an eye opener!). Zoe’s campaign focuses on five “wicked" problems facing our community: housing affordability, economic development, racial equity, integrated financial planning, and climate sustainability. She realizes that all these problems are connected and need to be tackled in a comprehensive fashion.

We believe her leadership, vision and strategic approach to Brookline’s problems — as well as her skills in creating collaborative strategies to address Brookline’s “wicked” problems — would be an asset to the Select Board. She’s demonstrated her leadership in the arena of climate sustainability, bringing together a very diverse (and sometimes divergent) group of stakeholders in a 2019 Brookline Climate Summit with great success.

We believe she can repeat that success in the other arenas, and work to bring groups together to forge a solid Select Board, town-wide, collaborative strategy for moving forward on all these issues.

We endorse Zoe Lynn for Select Board, and we hope you will learn about her candidacy (at www.VoteZoeforBrookline.com) and support her too on May 4, 2021, with your vote.

Sincerely,

Joan Lancourt, Commission for Diversity, Inclusion & Community Relations, Building a Better Brookline, Precinct 14

Kea van der Ziel, Town Meeting Member, Precinct 15