Photograph by Damon Bates Photography.
BY: SOFIA HERNANDEZ PERILLA, SUMMER 2020 COLLABORATOR AT POWER IN PLACE
“I was knocking on the door of the Board of Selectmen all the time to do things and I thought “well I guess I’ve gotta stop knocking on the door and just go into the room!””
My long term vision for Wellesley is that it become a place that is a leader in sustainability and carbon emission reduction and that we have a sort of community wide effort to build that model of a sustainable community. I don’t just mean from an environmental standpoint. Wellesley has a lot of work to do to become a more welcoming community, a more inclusive community and I think we can do that in the context of becoming a more sustainable community as well...so it’s kind of a green new deal for Wellesley.