Andrew Flowers

Andrew is running because we need a fresh infusion of bold leaders on Beacon Hill – leaders with both expertise and backbone to confront the urgent problems we face. His background as an economist and local leader makes him uniquely qualified for this moment.

Andrew grew up in a working-class family that struggled, moving more than 20 times, across five states, before graduating from high school. His parents went bankrupt twice. As a teenager, Andrew worked for his dad’s janitorial business, rising before dawn to clean office buildings and retail stores before racing to school.

After graduating from the University of Chicago, he now has more than a decade of experience in economics, including five years at the Federal Reserve during the last major recession. Recently, he was an economist at Indeed.com, the world’s largest jobs site. He lives in Walpole with my wife Anna and their two little kids. In Walpole, he is Vice Chair of the Finance Committee and Chair of the affordable housing committee.

Andrew will push for progressive solutions to climate change, transportation, and racial injustice. But we can’t fix these problems until we fix the State House. It’s broken, plagued by inertia and complacency. To start, Andrew will fight to radically improve transparency.

As an economist, Andrew has the expertise. As a progressive, he has the backbone. He won’t settle for the status quo. And neither should you.