Black Women in Boston Politics: Councilwoman Tania Anderson

Black in Boston and Beyond

In this episode Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Councilwoman Tania Anderson. Williams is the current director of the William Monroe Trotter Institute at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Anderson is a Councilwoman for district 7 in the city of Boston. She is one of a few Black women active in the politics of Boston. Anderson is also the first African immigrant and Muslim-American elected to the Boston City Council. She was born in Cape Verde and came to Roxbury at the age of ten and elected to the Council on November 2, 2021. Her district includes Roxbury, Dorchester, Fenway, and part of the South End and before coming to the City Council she was Executive Director of Bowdoin Geneva Main Streets and a parent advocate with the Boston Public Schools. She has also worked as a child social worker and managed a shelter for homeless women. Anderson shares with us some of her professional and personal background as a Black woman in politics while also sharing with us her vision for district 7 in the city of Boston.