Thank you, Boston.

I'm so proud to have the support of the best people in the best City in the world. #seeyouintheneighborhood !

a champion for every-day bostonians

Erin has long been a champion for those in recovery from addiction, and for the families and friends who are also suffering. Like so many Bostonians, Erin knows from first-hand experience that substance abuse/addiction and mental health issues affect ALL people and families. These issues also affect our neighborhoods. Erin has worked to end the stigma about talking about these issues because she knows that talking is the first step we must take on the road to making things better for all of us.

Erin will work to make sure families and those suffering know how and where to access the recovery programs that are available for them. She will work to get the comprehensive recovery campus on Long Island built. She will work to end the "clustering" of treatment programs in the South End/South Boston/Roxbury in order to relieve the unfair pressure on the residents, employees, school kids, and small business owners in those neighborhoods.

Erin doesn't just talk the talk -- she walks (runs) the walk.

Erin Murphy doesn't give up and she always works hard to make things better for everyone.

Meet Erin Murphy

A LEGACY OF NEIGHBOROHOOD SERVICE

Growing up in Dorchester, I was fortunate to learn from my family the value of working hard: For your family, for your neighborhood, and for your principles. I am a first-time candidate for office, but working for the betterment of our neighborhoods runs in my family – all the way back to the 1960’s when my grandfather, Richard Murphy, organized all the local neighborhood associations under one united group (Dorchester United Neighborhood Association) to advocate for a park and community buildings on acres of former landfill in Dorchester.

Today we know the space as the Richard J. Murphy School and adjacent sports fields and playgrounds. Hundreds of thousands of Bostonians since 1965 have benefitted from his leadership and vision.

Richard Murphy's pride and joy was founding, through DUNA, a community credit union that made very small, low-low interest loans (what we now call “micro-loans”) to working people in the City. The Dorchester Credit Union was ahead of its time, and it is that same sort of Thinking Big for the benefit of every-day neighbors that I will bring to the City Council.

I followed in Papa Murphy’s footsteps of service: When I ran the Boston Marathon three times to raise $50k for addiction recovery and mental health programs at the Gavin Foundation; When I rallied support and raised a record amount of money for the Dorchester Day Committee as their honorary Mayor; When I brought yoga and mindfulness teaching into my Boston Public School classrooms; And when I go out before dawn most mornings to share sunrise over Boston Harbor photos with thousands of City residents who believe, as I do, that there is so much good going on in Boston’s neighborhoods.

I learned how to lead and how to stand up for all of us from my family. My years giving back to Boston convinced me that the City Council needs to listen more to the voices of our neighborhoods.

I will be the City Councilor who brings all our voices to City Hall.