Quick Facts
- Current Position: School Committee Member
- Candidate Status: Required signatures submitted: 77 (65 verified)
- Website: https://voteharding.wordpress.com/
- Cambridge.vote: richard-harding
From the Candidate’s Website
Richard Harding is a lifelong Cantibridgian.
Harding led the effort via the Port Action Group create a streetworker in Area 4 to help connect formerly incarcerated individuals with services and resources.
Richard was instrumental in organizinging Civil Rights: Policing, Discretion and Race, and Not Guilty, a forum that reviewed the Eurie Stamps and DJ Henry police conduct incidents.
As a School Committee member, Richard’s bold, effective leadership included serving as Vice-Chair and co-chairing the Budget Committee and Contract Negotiations. Richard has co-chaired the Kids Council and brought his leadership to the Neighborhood Safety Task Force’s Employment Sub-Committee.
Prior Work and Positions
- Intern at Joe Kennedy’s Citizen’s Energy
- Director of Constituent Services for Senator Steven Tolman
- Chair of the Ward 2 Democratic Committee
- Young People’s Project and of the Community Arts Center board member
- President of the Port Life Foundation
- Founder of the Port Action Group
- Recipient of the NAACP Education Excellence Award and the Cambridge Peace and Justice Award
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