Erika Uyterhoeven

Erika Uyterhoeven grew up in Wayland and is a first-generation Japanese American. She began her trajectory as a democratic socialist after working as an antitrust economist and strategy consultant, where she witnessed firsthand how corporations undermine worker’s rights and profit from our government. In 2016, Uyterhoeven was pivotal as the National Out of State Organizing Director for the Bernie Sanders campaign. In 2018, she worked on Nika Elugardo’s successful campaign to unseat the House Ways and Means Chair Representative Jeffrey Sanchez. Since then, she has built her career on fighting for government transparency, co-founding Act on Mass, whose members successfully blocked a $37 million corporate tax break from being slipped into the budget in 2019. In 2020, we endorsed Uyterhoeven as the House Representative for the 27th Middlesex district. Since then, she has worked with members of the House to expand access to abortions in Massachusetts, made historic, unprecedented investments in fixing the T, funded public education, built affordable housing opportunities, and more! Now, she is committing to continue fighting for Medicare for All, housing as a human right, universal pre-K and debt-free higher ed, and a carbon-free future to combat the climate crisis.