Anna Callahan for
Medford City Council

Listening to you

Schedule your own listening session!

I love hearing from residents, especially people who don’t normally come to City Council meetings. Please reach out to me if I can come to your church, neighborhood, club, union, or anywhere else that you can get a group together.

From the campaign to invest in Medford

Let’s make our city better together!

II’m Anna Callahan, a software engineer and a mom living near Magoun Square with my son. I’m asking you to support my second term on City Council this November.

So far this term we have brought financial responsibility to Medford (through our budget ordinance, stabilization funds, and investments in our schools and roads), reduced our rodent problems (through the Rodent Control, Wildlife Feeding, and Overgrowth ordinances), re-zoned our entire city to allow slightly more housing in every neighborhood, and protected vulnerable residents from the Trump administration (through the Reproductive Healthcare, Gender Affirming Care, and Welcoming City ordinances). 

My specialty is finding out-of-the-box solutions that solve our root issues here in Medford and that are proven to work in other cities. I need your help to keep improving our roads, trees, squares, and quality of life. I hope to earn your vote! 

What I bring to the role of city councilor:

  • An engineer’s solution-oriented mindset with out-of-the-box thinking

  • Dedication to data and outcomes and researching what has worked in other cities

  • Commitment to meeting regularly with residents to tailor to micro-neighborhood needs

Real change isn’t just passing policy —
it involves the whole community.

Meet Anna

I’m Anna Callahan, I’m a software engineer and mom, and I’m dedicated to making city government work for everyone. 

I moved to the area in 2003 and fell in love with it.  We now live near Magoun Square and in the summer you can often find us at the pool — sometimes we’re there more than once a day! We love getting involved in projects where volunteers make amazing things happen. We sometimes go to School of Honk, we’ve done the North Cambridge Family Opera, and we absolutely loved the Medford Cardboard Canoe Race. :D

I’m super interested in how to re-invigorate democracy, especially at the local level. For the last few years I’ve trained people in red, purple, and blue states to elect better representatives to their city council by increasing the engagement of working people.  I have a passion for hearing the voices of people who aren’t usually engaged in politics.
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