Kim Michelle Janey was born on May 16,1965 and is an American politician who served as acting mayor of Boston for eight months in 2021.
58 Facts About Kim Janey
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Kim Janey served as president of the Boston City Council from 2020 to 2022, and as a member of the council from the 7th district from 2018 to 2022.
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Kim Janey entered the Boston City Council in January 2018, and was selected as president of the Council in January 2020.
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Kim Janey was a candidate in the nonpartisan primary of the 2021 Boston mayoral election, but had an unsuccessful fourth-place finish.
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Kim Janey launched a Vaccine Equity Grant Initiative to increase awareness and access to the COVID-19 vaccine in communities that were disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.
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Kim Janey fired Police Commissioner Dennis White after an independent probe found a pattern of alleged domestic violence by him.
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Kim Janey launched a pilot program that made the MBTA Route 28 bus fare-free for three-months.
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Since May 2022, Kim Janey has served as the chief executive officer of Economic Mobility Pathways, a Boston nonprofit which addresses poverty.
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Kim Janey has held teaching fellowships at Harvard University and Salem State University and worked as an executive in residence at The Boston Foundation since leaving public office.
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Kim M Janey was born on May 16,1965, in Roxbury, Boston, to Clifford B Janey and Phyllis Janey, who divorced when she was young.
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Kim Janey's father taught and worked as a school administrator in Boston, and would serve as superintendent of the Rochester City School District, District of Columbia Public Schools, and Newark Public Schools.
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Kim Janey "has had family in the city of Boston for six generations".
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Kim Janey's family was well known in the Roxbury neighborhood.
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Kim Janey has ancestors that escaped to Canada through the Underground Railroad before settling in Boston in the latter half of the 19th century.
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When she was eleven years old, Kim Janey attended school in Charlestown, Boston.
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Kim Janey later attended high school in Reading, Massachusetts, under a voluntary program that allowed inner city students to commute to nearby suburbs for high school.
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Kim Janey gave birth to a daughter at the age of 16.
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Kim Janey entered Smith College but interrupted her studies to care for her ill grandfather after the death of her grandmother.
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Kim Janey volunteered for Mel King's campaign in the 1983 Boston mayoral election.
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In 1994, Kim Janey participated in the Ada Comstock Scholars Program designed for students who are older than the traditional age for college students.
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Kim Janey worked as a community organizer and education advocate for Parents United for Child Care.
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Kim Janey joined the Massachusetts Advocates for Children, a nonprofit, in 2001.
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Kim Janey endorsed John Barros's candidacy in the 2013 Boston mayoral election.
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In 2015, Kim Janey served on the transition team aiding Tommy Chang in his transition into the position of superintendent of Boston Public Schools.
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Kim Janey was a district city councilor, representing the council's seventh district.
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Kim Janey's district was centered in the Roxbury neighborhood, and contained parts of Dorchester, the Fenway and the South End.
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Kim Janey dubbed her district "ground zero" for issues in the city such as economic and racial inequalities, an insufficient supply affordable housing, traffic, and the opioid epidemic.
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Kim Janey was first elected to the Boston City Council in November 2017.
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Kim Janey won the election with 55.5 percent of the 8,901 votes cast.
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In November 2019, the City Council passed an ordinance authored by Kim Janey, aiming to increase equity in the legal cannabis industry.
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Wu and Kim Janey were regarded to both be progressive members of the Boston City Council.
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In January 2020, Kim Janey was elected as president of the City Council by her fellow councilors.
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Kim Janey was the third consecutive female president of the Boston City Council.
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Kim Janey was the second black woman to serve in the role, after only her immediate predecessor Andrea Campbell.
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Kim Janey held an unofficial swearing-in ceremony on March 24,2021.
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Kim Janey announced on April 6,2021, her candidacy in the mayoral election.
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Kim Janey announced that she planned to remove tents from the Mass and Cass area, and relocate people into homeless shelters and treatment centers.
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Kim Janey signed an executive order creating a "central coordinating team" of local and state officials to outline shelter and addiction treatments available in the region for those needing them.
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On October 5, Kim Janey signed into law the Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance, an ordinance requiring buildings in the city that are larger than 20,000 square feet to reach net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2050, and setting emissions reporting requirements for such buildings.
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Around the same time, Kim Janey announced that she had directed the city to drop its legal defense of a Boston Police Department promotion exam that had been criticized by opponents as "racially discriminatory".
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Kim Janey ordered the city to move to reach a settlement in the years-long litigation surrounding the exam.
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Kim Janey's office claimed that their long-term plan would be to add 30 more officers to the police force, claiming that doing so would help to cut down on overtime expenses.
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In December 2021, after Wu succeeded Kim Janey, Wu extended the pilot program by two months.
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In May, Kim Janey signed an ordinance into law which would move the nonpartisan primary for the 2021 Boston mayoral election, in which she was a declared candidate, from its originally-scheduled date of September 21, to the date of September 14.
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Kim Janey signed an executive order awarding city contractors state prevailing wages.
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In June, Kim Janey signed an ordinance that would allow for there to be a binding referendum on the ballot in the November 2021 municipal general election as to whether the city charter provision relating to the municipal budget should be amended.
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On October 22,2021, Kim Janey sent a letter to the United States Census Bureau to announce the city's intention to challenge the 2020 United States census results for the city, alleging that the city's population had been undercounted.
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In November 2022, Kim Janey signed into law an that amended the city's existing paid child leave law to provide leave to those who have had an abortion.
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Kim Janey's acting incumbency, and the national media attention it initially received, was perceived as being a strong advantage.
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Vennochi argued that, unlike Menino, Kim Janey had been cautious in governing, and, "didn't define herself or her plans for a future administration", and had been "carefully scripted" in press conferences, outside of her controversial off-hand remarks about vaccine passports.
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Originally, like the other major candidates, with the exception of Michelle Wu, Kim Janey opposed rent control.
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Kim Janey's platform called for an "equitable" recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kim Janey conceded the election shortly after midnight on the day after the primary election, when very little of the vote total had been released.
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In early March 2022, Kim Janey joined The Boston Foundation, being appointed to a one-year term as an executive in residence.
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Kim Janey was tasked with working with the foundation's president and chief executive officer, M Lee Pelton, on a project related to documenting, preserving, and promoting awareness of historical landmarks located in neighborhoods of Boston with large populations of people of color.
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In late-May 2022, Kim Janey was announced as the next chief executive officer of the Boston Economic Mobility Pathways, a nonprofit focused on addressing poverty.
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Kim Janey succeeded Beth Babcock, who had led the nonprofit for sixteen years, on June 1,2022.
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In 2015, Kim Janey received the Boston NAACP Difference Maker Award.