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Alejandra St. Guillen is a Venezuelan American former candidate for the position of Boston City Councilor At-Large in Boston, Massachusetts. If elected, she would have been the first Latinx woman to take a seat on the Boston City Council.[1]
Early Life and Education
[edit]St. Guillen was raised born to a Venezuelan immigrant father and a mother from New Hampshire in Boston’s Mission Hill neighborhood. In 1996, she pursued her B.A. in Economics and African Studies from Wesleyan University. After completing her undergraduate degree in 1999, she pursed a Master's of Education from City College.[2]
Career
[edit]St. Guillen began her career as a public school teacher in New York City and Boston for four years.[3] From 2011-2014 she served as the Director of ¿Oíste?, Latino Civic & Political Organization where she promoted economic justice and electoral reform public policy initiatives directly impacting communities of color statewide.[2] St. Guillen served as the Director of the City of Boston's Office for Immigrant Advancement from February 2014 - November 2018, where her work included initiatives like the Greater Boston Immigrant Defense Fund. She left this position to run for Boston City Council-At-Large in the 2019 Boston City Council Election.
Election History
[edit]St. Guillen ran for Boston City Councilor-At-Large in 2019. The top eight vote-getters in the preliminary election qualified for the general election of four seats. Late on the night of the general election, with only a 10-vote margin between candidates for the final at-large seat, fifth-placed Alejandra St. Guillen called for a recount. The election department subsequently corrected the tallies of some hand-counted ballots, resulting in a margin of five votes as of November 13 (22,477 to 22,472), and tallied provisional ballots, resulting in a margin of eight votes on November 15 (22,500 to 22,492).[4]
| Candidates | Preliminary election | General election | Recount | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | Votes | % | |
| Michelle Wu (i) | 26,622 | 19.4 | 41,643 | 20.7 | ||
| Annissa Essaibi George (i) | 18,993 | 13.8 | 34,074 | 17.0 | ||
| Michael F. Flaherty (i) | 18,766 | 13.7 | 33,269 | 16.6 | ||
| Julia Mejia | 10,799 | 7.9 | 22,477 | 11.2 | 22,492 | — |
| Alejandra St. Guillen | 11,910 | 8.7 | 22,472 | 11.2 | 22,491 | — |
| Erin Murphy | 9,385 | 6.8 | 16,853 | 8.4 | ||
| Althea Garrison (i) | 9,720 | 7.1 | 16,175 | 8.1 | ||
| David Halbert | 6,354 | 4.8 | 13,209 | 6.6 | ||
| Martin Keogh | 6,246 | 4.5 | ||||
| Jeffrey Ross | 5,078 | 3.7 | ||||
| Priscilla Flint-Banks | 4,094 | 3.0 | ||||
| Domingos DaRosa | 2,840 | 2.1 | ||||
| Michel Denis | 2,108 | 1.5 | ||||
| William A. King | 1,809 | 1.3 | ||||
| Herb Lozano | 1,510 | 1.1 | ||||
| Write-in | 766 | 0.6 | 890 | 0.4 | ||
| Total | 137,380 | 100 | 201,014 | 100 | ||
Personal life
[edit]St. Guillen resides in West Roxbury with her wife, Josiane, and their son, Jose Alejandro.[2]
St. Guillen's 24-year old sister Imette St. Guillen, was abducted and brutally murdered by an ex-convict bouncer at a bar in New York in 2006.[5] The case sparked reforms by way of legislation named after Imette in both New York that required bouncers in Boston to obtain criminal background checks.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Times, The Rainbow (2019-06-06). "Openly Gay & First Latinx Woman Runs For Boston City Council At-Large Seat". The Rainbow Times | New England's Largest LGBTQ Newspaper | Boston. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ a b c "Alejandra St. Guillen appointed to Boston Cannabis Board | Boston.gov". www.boston.gov. 2020-07-22. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ "Alejandra St. Guillen '99 Has Big Ideas for Boston City Council". The Wesleyan Argus. 2019-01-28. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
- ^ Comments, Share on Facebook Share on TwitterView. "Mejia, St. Guillen look back on the closest Boston City Council race in history - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ a b DeCosta-Klipa, Nik. "Boston City Council candidate opens up about her sister's murder". www.boston.com. Retrieved 2025-03-08.