Zoe Lynn - Effective & the Right Choice for the Select Board

We are excited to be early endorsers of Zoe Lynn for Brookline Select Board.

Many of us had the opportunity to work with Zoe during her time as the Town’s Sustainability Program Administrator. We saw her listen deeply to residents across the community and devote the time necessary for understanding a myriad of perspectives, constraints, barriers, and opportunities, and then pull together a cohesive, forward-moving plan.

This work was done in a way and on a scale that we, in Brookline, had not experienced before. Zoe’s unique but effective approach — pulling stakeholders together to get things done, while integrating feedback from across the community — is what we need on the Select Board now. She engaged Town employees, elected and appointed officials, and community members to effectively advance the Select Board’s climate goals.

Zoe comes to Brookine with fresh ideas and clear convictions. In her work with our community and Town, she learned and has demonstrated effective knowledge of our representative Town Meeting form of government. Within her first few months as Brookline’s first Sustainability Program Administrator, Zoe brought together 150 people from across the town to create the Select Board’s Sustainability & Climate Action Summit in 2019. She coordinated a complex process that distilled aspirational community ideas and energies; recruited community expertise; and led volunteer working groups — ultimately leading to successfully passed policy. Nine integrated sustainability and climate warrant articles, representing community priorities from the Summit, moved to the fall Town Meeting, just months after her work started.

Brookline is facing a number of challenges, from climate change to financial planning, social justice to affordable housing. Zoe Lynn is a change agent we need, committed to hearing residents, employees, business owners and town staff. We are confident that Zoe is the right choice for the Select Board.

Please join us in supporting Zoe in a much needed candidacy for our town and its future.

Sincerely,

Kathleen Scanlon, Town Meeting Member, Precinct 3

Cher Duffield, Town Meeting Member, Precinct 6

Tracie Burns, Town Meeting Member, Precinct 8

Roslyn Feldberg, Town Meeting Member candidate, Precinct 10

David Lowe, Town Meeting Member, Precinct 11