Alex Alex for Boston's Mayor

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Who am I to Run?

My name is Alex Alex, and I am running to be Boston’s mayor. I immigrated illegally from Mexico, arriving in Boston when I was three. At 12, The Steppingstone Foundation and Ropes & Gray partnered to help me become a permanent resident. They argued that the nation would do itself a disservice if I were sent back to Mexico. My presence in this country hinges on the recognition that I was an asset worth keeping while I was in middle school. I was naturalized in Faneuil Hall in 2023.

I’ve gone through five of Boston’s schools —public, charter, and private. An overwhelming list of programs and scholarships have prepared me for leadership across disciplines and contexts. I graduated with honors from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where I created my own degree:

Critical Systems Studies.

Critical – Analysis and critique our current systems, and research of better functioning forms.

Critical Systems – Flow of resources and labor that cannot fail, lest society plunge into chaos.

Systems Studies – Governing and education, food and mental health are not separate. These are complex, interlaced systems that cannot be siloed as if effects won’t ripple across all of society.

I have trained myself to lead my entire life. I never fixated on a title; running for mayor wasn’t on my radar until April. I move through the city, noting its dysfunction, asking, “why can't it step forward?” In April alone, I stopped people smoking on the T, got rowdy children on school buses to settle down, and cleaned 600 pounds of garbage around the city. What could I have achieved had the Wu administration hired me? What potential can I help Boston unlock?

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Why do I think I'm Ready?

A range of jobs (like management in retail, construction, teaching) and internships (with legal services, environmental orgs, and municipal services), as well as my own intellectual rigor, have given me the deep background knowledge necessary for efficient governing. My goal is liberation, advancement, bounty, compassion, cohesion. Boston is poised to lead a world that can see itself honestly, working to improve while celebrating its beauty.

I am a kid shaped, raised, trained by Boston. I am the intended product of its schools and programs. I live the daily realities of people fighting to stay alive in this system. Most of us can’t afford rent, much less a condo on whim to enter the mayoral race. I have the technical knowledge, implementation skills, and drive to bridge gaps in transit, housing, and labor.

I am here today because dozens of institutions and individuals helped me advance through flawed systems. I was trained to recognize needs, to see how my talents can help others, and to lead, not through mandates, but through example. Do I, or any other kid from these leadership programs, have to wait for establishments to tell us, “now you can lead your city”?

I have lived on the margins, making do with scraps. My entire childhood was a crash course in valuable, applicable governing skills. I can generate bounty out of what already exists. I want all kids to see this city as a reflection of themselves, one they helped build. I want every adult to feel youth when they step out onto Boston’s streets. I will build a city that sees its residents and validates their existence.

Alex Αλεξ

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For Boston’s Mayor

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