WELCOME
My name is Sonia Chang-Díaz, and I'm proud to be your state senator.
I believe in smart, progressive policies that address the difficult challenges our communities face. I look forward to standing with you as we fight for a fairer, better Massachusetts.
KEY ISSUE
Thanks to nearly a decade of thoughtful study and persistent broad-based organizing from across the Commonwealth, the Governor signed our generational education funding reform legislation into law. It fulfills all five of the recommendations by the Foundation Budget Review Commission — including the key equity provisions — and fills the $1.5 billion hole left by decades of underinvestment.
I advocated for the bill on the Senate floor in October, and it was passed unanimously.
LATEST NEWS
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By Greater Boston Staff | Feb 26, 2021
State Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, D-Suffolk, and Atyia Martin, former chief resiliency officer for Boston, joined Jim Braude to talk about the key takeaways from the COVID Oversight Hearing.
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By Chris Van Buskirk | Feb 19, 2021
A senior-level director in charge of COVID-19 vaccination equity and an allocation of $10 million to community organizations for outreach and engagement in communities of color are part of a list of five demands outlined Wednesday by a new coalition seeking to address what they say are serious racial injustices in the state's vaccine distribution plan.
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By Paris Alston and Callum Borchers | Feb 18, 2021
Senator Chang-Díaz and the Vaccine Equity Now! Coalition discuss Massachusetts' vaccine rollout