Catia Sharp

Catia Sharp (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives to represent the 27th Middlesex District. She lost in the Democratic primary on September 1, 2020.

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Biography

Sharp was born in Burlington, Vermont. She earned her bachelor's degree from Northeastern University in 2013 and her master's degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2018. Her professional experience includes working as a coordinator of Smart Justice Initiatives and as a behavioral health policy analyst at the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health and Middlesex Sheriff's Office. She has also worked at designing mental health and substance use programs, as an economic and fiscal analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance, as a government innovation fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab, as intake staff for MetroWest Legal Services, as well as an event assistant for the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts (NAMI-Mass).^[1]

Elections

2020

General election

General election for Massachusetts House of Representatives 27th Middlesex District

Erika Uyterhoeven won election in the general election for Massachusetts House of Representatives 27th Middlesex District on November 3, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Erika Uyterhoeven (D)	98.4	20,549
	Other/Write-in votes	1.6	328

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 20,877
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts House of Representatives 27th Middlesex District

Erika Uyterhoeven defeated Catia Sharp in the Democratic primary for Massachusetts House of Representatives 27th Middlesex District on September 1, 2020.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Erika Uyterhoeven	61.9	8,943
	Catia Sharp	38.1	5,494

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 14,437
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Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Catia Sharp has been a Somerville resident since 2013. She has long been a public servant working to make government work better for people, including through programs to address homelessness, behavioral health, and reduce mass incarceration. Catia has worked for the state budget office under Governor Deval Patrick and Secretary Jay Gonzalez, and currently staffs the Middlesex County Restoration Center Commission. She holds a Master in Public Policy degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Catia believes that we need government that puts people first and addresses the root causes of problems. She believes that Somerville and Massachusetts should be leading on housing affordability, transportation, and protecting our most vulnerable residents. That's why she's running to be the State Representative representing Somerville's 27th Middlesex district.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

We need government that puts people first and addresses the root causes of problems
Catia believes in equity and justice for all, not only those who are born with access and opportunity
Catia has the experience in government to create more access and opportunity for everyone

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I view public policy through a lens of equity and justice for all. I see our criminal justice system as indicative of the holes in our social safety net and broken parts of other systems. People who fell through the cracks in our social safety net are the ones who get swept into the justice system. For example, homeless individuals get arrested for "crimes of homelessness" - I see housing affordability as perhaps the most major challenge facing Somerville, and the reason for downstream homelessness and related incarceration. Behavioral health conditions go untreated because of lack of access to care, and turn into crises that police and emergency rooms are forced to solve. Lack of job and educational opportunity leads to poverty, and can also lead to criminalization. In order to address mass incarceration, we must focus on making our social safety net work again.

I also care deeply about the equity and justice challenges we see in our transportation system, the barriers people face to working (childcare affordability, etc.), climate and environmental stewardship, and even in our tax code.

Finally, I think the way government is managed is incredibly important to achieving our goals of equity and justice in all of these domains. Government ought to be administered with less ego, more compassion, and by putting people at the center of the work.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

I admire and learn from many people, and also acknowledge that there is no single person who embodies perfection.

I admire Angela Merkel and Jacinda Ardern for their bold and unapologetic leadership of their respective countries. Neither of them has bent to meet the mold of male leadership that came before, and instead have shown a new model of leadership that is humble, compassionate, and bold. I hope to also model a feminine style of leadership that can drop confrontational and ego-centric parts of leadership in favor of intellectual curiosity and honesty.

I admire Taran Burke, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malala Yousafzai, and Rachel Carson for their ability to develop a theory of what the world should look like and to pursue that theory when it's tough, and when no one else agrees with you. These women showed us the problematic parts of our society, and proposed new ways of thinking and of treating each other and our environment that live on today. They weren't apologetic or afraid to put forward those visions, and in many ways were not accepted for those visions. But they pushed the arc of history forward nevertheless.

I admire Madeline Albright and Eleanor Roosevelt for a steadyness of leadership. I believe leaders ought to be calm, thoughtful, and deliberative. Leaders ought not to be encouraging mob mentality, or rushing to judgment, or promoting our own biases or neuroses. I want to model this vision of a leader who takes their time to gather facts before making judgments or decisions, and who is honest enough to be open when they change their mind and why. I want to be a leader who reassures and works through problems, diffusing hysteria and promoting rationality.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

I think elected officials ought to have a high level of empathy. By that, I mean the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and view the world or the issue at hand from their perspective. This is the only way you can truly understand how to negotiate the tradeoffs inherent in any policy decision. Policy decisions are never one-sided, and elected officials must keep that in perspective.

For this reason, I think elected officials must be deliberative, which is not to say they should be indecisive. Elected officials must be willing to make bold choices when called for, and do so knowing all of the downsides.

Elected officials should also be intellectually curious and honest, which means they should be bold enough to change their mind when it's warranted by new information and should boldly state why they have changed their mind. They should not only accept new, conflicting information when it comes to them, but actively seek out new information to test their assumptions. They should make sure that they don't fall into the trap of surrounding themselves with "yes-men."

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

My entire career, I have sought out the hardest problems to tackle head-on. For example, I care about reducing mass incarceration and making our prisons/jails more humane, so I sought out a Sheriff to work with to do just that. I have the tenacity and compassion to do the same in the State House.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

The core responsibilities of a State Representative in Massachusetts are to dutifully and faithfully help to make residents lives better each and every day. That might be through constituent services, when individual residents or families have a particular challenge that must be addressed. These items can then inform systemic or structural problems with governance that must be addressed through legislation. Another key role that a State Representative must play is to conduct oversight over the Administrative branch of government to ensure that laws and programs are being executed faithfully and that discretion is being used appropriately.

A State Representative must actively work with residents, stakeholder groups, and others to identify challenges that can be remedied through one of the three functions described above.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I would like to make life better for people every single day of my life, in or out of elected office. I try to do this every day in my job as well as in my personal life. Running for office, to me, is about increasing the scope and speed of my ability to achieve this goal.

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

I was in 6th grade when the terror attacks of September 11th happened in neighboring New York. At age 11, it was abundantly clear that the world had changed over night.

Though I have no other life or time to compare it to, my life feels like it has been traveling through an extraordinary, once in several generations time period. I entered adulthood the year of the global financial crisis, and entered the workforce in the aftermath Great Recession. Now, I am transitioning into my thirties and the next phase of my career and adult life during a global pandemic that threatens an even deeper recession. And those global recessions come after the tumult of the terror attacks and the wars (and racism) that followed.

Every generation is a product of the historical events that they live through. I think my generation is rightly questioning the pre-existing world order (capitalism, neoliberalism, and a general bias toward the status quo) specifically because that world order has never felt safe or pre-ordained to us. We may still fall across a range of ideological beliefs that color our ultimate reaction to these events, but on both sides of the ideological spectrum, people are questioning the style of those who came before.

I personally am taking these questions to heart during the uncertainty of this current crisis, but have room in my heart for great leaders and great ideas of the past. For example, I see some of the failings in this current crisis (a crisis of unemployment, for example) as stemming directly from the ways in which actors in our economy have attempted to cut costs by bucking government rules that worked. Uber and other gig economy members have found ways around providing protections to employees like paying into unemployment insurance; now, the government is bailing out those workers (and, by extension, those companies). I seek to look at the root causes of problems to identify old and new solutions alike that work.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

My first job was in the Governor's budget office under Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. I worked on "special finance projects," which sought to bring data and evidence into decision making and design projects that put people first. This included social programs for vulnerable populations like housing for chronically homeless individuals and job programs for young men involved in the criminal justice system. It also included an economic development program intended to fund public infrastructure leveraging new state tax revenue from brand new jobs at new office space, with critical clawback provisions if developers didn't meet their stated numbers.

I started working there as a cooperative education student from Northeastern University in 2012, and stayed into the Baker administration before leaving in 2015 after seeing some decision making that I didn't agree with.

This job was incredibly foundational for me. The people who I worked with, including the Secretary of Administration and Finance at the time Jay Gonzales (who later ran for governor himself), were the most passionate, dedicated group of public servants I have ever had the pleasure of working with. Every decision that was made involved a discussion about how it would impact the people who depend on or benefit from the government program in question. Dissenting opinions were sought out and their feedback incorporated; even when I was a cooperative education student, my feedback was sought and implemented when appropriate.

Since then, I have seen less thoughtful and more ego-driven leadership in my public sector positions. I believe we can have competent, hard working, and humble elected officials, and I am running to make that the standard for how our leaders behave.

What is your favorite book? Why?

I love 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for the magical realism, and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller for the sardonic sarcasm that holds a mirror up to our military-industrial complex.

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

I currently have a song stuck in my head by an amazing local band in Somerville, Dan and the Wildfire. They play at the Burren in Davis Square.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

My parents filed for bankruptcy protection after an accident that almost killed my father. I remember clipping coupons with my mom and watching her take care of my dad in a halo brace. They were in that position because they couldn't get health insurance coverage before the ACA outlawed coverage denials like this. This frugality has helped me to become more patient, tenacious, and hardworking. It also taught me the value of health, and what life can look like when you don't have coverage. Not having coverage isn't about not getting life-saving care when you're in a pinch. It's about the incredible financial burden you get when you are inevitably forced to access care. That's why the Oregon health experiment found that the biggest impacts of Medicaid coverage are financial; Medicaid can truly alleviate some of the financial strain that it is to be poor.

My family is lucky that my dad got the care he needed, and my parents were able to rebuild their lives after that. Many people aren't as lucky, suffering from the kind of poor health and chronic conditions you can have when you don't get good primary care due to a lack of insurance.

Every state besides Nebraska has two legislative chambers. What do you consider the most important differences between the legislative chambers in your state?

In Massachusetts, as in many places, the House of Representatives (here, the General Court) is much larger than the State Senate. Because there are more members and smaller districts, issues tend to be more local, and frankly can be more divisive.

Because of the difference in the number of members, and the way we have structured committees in our legislature (Joint Committees between House and Senate), every single member of the Senate is in leadership on a committee. That is not true in the House. Senators have more resources than Representatives, and the position therefore is more prestigious and attracts good talent. Representatives who aren't in leadership - the majority of them - must make decisions on hundreds of bills each year and handle all of the constituent inquiries in their district of 40,000 residents with only a single paid (and I should say underpaid) staffer.

There is also a deep cultural divide between the two chambers that likely stems from these logistical differences. There is a much more top-down, bureaucratic internal infrastructure in the House of Representatives that makes it harder for a single representative to drive the narrative on a given topic. There is also a history of corruption and nepotism that has sent prior Speakers of the House to jail.

This is precisely why I seek the office of a State Representative. Throughout my career, I have sought out entrenched bureaucratic cultures that resist change and worked hard from the inside to change those cultures to respond to the needs of the people they serve. I have done this in the criminal justice world, and I seek to do it in the Massachusetts General Court.

Do you believe that it’s beneficial for state legislators to have previous experience in government or politics?

I absolutely believe that legislators, regardless of their level, must have some experience and understanding of the systems they seek to run and change. This is the foundation of my decision to run for office.

I started a masters degree at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in the fall of 2016, and two months later, Donald Trump was elected president. I feel intensely the same pain and frustration of many in my generation that is seeking a change from established ways that the world works that seem to only be sowing chaos and confusion in our time. However, it terrified me that the response to these feelings could be electing a person with no experience to the most important office. That planted the first seed of seeking office myself some day.

I have spent my entire career in government, and have seen first hand how the implementation of programs and policies is almost more important than the existence of those policies and programs in the first place. The Republican governor in Florida knows this well, and has purposefully undermined their unemployment insurance system so that it is basically non-functional.

When legislating, I believe you need to have an understanding of the agencies you are tasking with implementing the programs and policies you pass. You need to understand their strengths and weaknesses, and legislate around those. you also need to understand how power transfers from administration to administration, and how to build programs that withstand the tests of time. I have worked through a gubernatorial transition, and have seen how programs can thrive or suffer all because of where in the government they were placed or who was in favor or against. I know how to create goal-oriented programs, and hold agencies accountable to those goals using data and evidence. That's what I seek to bring to the General Court.

What do you perceive to be your state’s greatest challenges over the next decade?

All of the challenges I list here are inter-related. The greatest challenges facing Massachusetts over the next decade are affordable housing, transportation, climate change, and creating access to opportunity.

Massachusetts is facing a crisis of affordability in housing. Rents and home prices are sky-high and growing at unprecedented rates. Property values are following the trend, meaning many people in Somerville are house-rich, but cash-poor, and struggle to pay property taxes. This situation impacts everyone, regardless of income. Low-income families and renters struggle with the high rental costs and ever-increasing rents. Would-be American dreamers seeking to purchase a first home struggle to enter the intensely competitive market.

Our transportation infrastructure is crumbling, and we have ignored the problem rather than face it head-on for decades. Subway, commuter rail, and bus service are compromised by decades of under-investment in regular maintenance and desperately needed upgrades that would, for example, allow for trains to travel faster or become more energy efficient. Bus service is not aligned with the needs of residents. Walking and biking are incredibly unsafe, and a review of the nation's traffic patterns named the Boston area as one of the worst for rush hour congestion. If we want to sustain an innovative, thriving economy, we need transportation that works for people.

Climate change threatens everyone across the globe, and Massachusetts is no different. With miles of fragile coastline ecosystems, we must act now to mitigate the impacts and prepare to protect people from those that are now inevitable.

All of these challenges wrap up unto the idea that we must build opportunity for all residents, not only those with means. To build the highest ideal of what we want to be, we must provide access to high-quality education, jobs, and supports for all while transitioning to a greener, cleaner economy.

What do you believe is the ideal relationship between the governor and the state legislature?

Ideally, it would be one of partnership. The Governor and the legislature would discuss goals for the state, agree on methods of achieving those goals, and use their own separate powers to pursue those goals.

The Governor would implement programs and policies with rigor and with measurement of success, and would report the data to the legislature to start a conversation about what is working, what isn't working, and how to improve.

The legislature would pass needed bills, including budgets, that seek to allow for the Governor to implement what is mutually agreed on as being needed to pursue these goals and to fix problems identified by the data presented.

Do you believe it’s beneficial to build relationships with other legislators? Please explain your answer.

I do believe it's beneficial to build relationships with other legislators. Otherwise, how would you ever pass any bills? That is the basis on which a legislature works. A majority or more than a majority of members representing different districts must agree on solutions to problems and enact those solutions.

Changing the people at the table and who and what they represent is certainly part of progress. Representation is important. It is also true that people are flawed; no single person represents perfection, because perfection is in the eye of the beholder.

Because each individual sees things just a little bit differently, it will always be true that legislators must build relationships with people they may agree with one day and disagree with the next day. We must be able and willing to have conversations across difference, to continue to respect each other and to treat each other as such, and to be willing to work with someone through the differences.

This process starts with introspection - what is it that I think is right at the core, and what are the parts of my plan that are negotiable because they have more to do with tactics than with outcomes? Then comes a genuine attempt at understanding the moral values underlying the other person's perspective as differentiated from the negotiable parts (the tactics on their side). Then comes persuasion and addressing each other's needs to find a solution workable for all. If you aren't ready to do the work of understanding where your negotiating partner is coming from, then you aren't ready to legislate.

If you are not a current legislator, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?

I would be interested in the House Committee on Ways and Means, given my background in budgeting and belief that the budget is the ultimate place where an overarching view of policy and the interrelatedness of systems can be addressed.

I would also be interested in the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight, given my knowledge of the administrative side of government and interest in accountability and performance management.

In terms of policy, I would be interested in the Joint Committee on Housing (because housing affordability is the number one issue in Somerville), the Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use, and Recovery (due to may background in this issue area, its importance in our society, and the limited attention and big challenges it faces), the Joint Committee on Transportation (again, because of the relationship between underinvestment in this area and our needs in Somerville), and the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security (given my interest in reducing mass incarceration).

If you are not currently a member of your party’s leadership in the legislature, would you be interested in joining the leadership? If so, in what role?

I would be interested in joining the leadership with conditions. It will always be beneficial to be a member of leadership in order to have a greater ability to shape policy in the image your district seeks. Leadership in the House of Representatives, however, is currently problematic in a lot of ways and doesn't necessarily promote the values I seek to bring. My goal would be to bring the values of equity and access to the State House, and to influence membership and leadership in favor of promoting those values in policy. If leadership showed their commitment to those values and to implementing the changes my district seeks, then I would seek a position that could best amplify my role in promoting those issues like housing affordability, funding of safe and reliable transportation options, protecting vulnerable populations, promoting educational access and equity, and protecting our environment.

Is there a particular legislator, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

Denise Provost has represented the 27th Middlesex for as long as I have lived here, and I couldn't imagine a better role model or champion for progressive values. I seek to follow in her very large footsteps on a range of issues from environmental policy to equity and justice to education.

Our State Senator, Pat Jehlen, is also a model of leadership on issues like criminal justice reform, education, senior issues, and more who I would seek to model as well.

Are you interested in running for a different political office (for example, the U.S. Congress or governor) in the future?

I don't have any plans to run for any other offices.

Both sitting legislators and candidates for office hear many personal stories from the residents of their district. Is there a story that you’ve heard that you found particularly touching, memorable, or impactful?

I was speaking with young men incarcerated in our county inside the House of Corrections. When asked how they would maintain safety and avoid returning to jail/prison after their release, one young man gave a particularly poignant response. He talked about how he is currently incarcerated on a gun charge for having an illegal weapon (a violent crime). He had the weapon to protect himself, because the street he lived on in the community was gang territory. He didn't feel safe in his own neighborhood unless he had a weapon to protect himself from violence.

This young man said that when he was released, he would need to go back to that house on that unsafe block because he had nowhere else to go, and no money or job with income to find and rent his own place outside of that neighborhood. When he returns, he will need to carry a weapon to protect himself, just like he did before. That puts him at risk of getting arrested again, but it also makes him feel safer.

This predicament explains our criminal justice system to me. The root cause of the incarceration of so many people is actually a rift in the fabric of our social system. A lack of access to opportunity - whether that is high-quality education, good jobs, affordable rent, accessible transportation, mental health services, etc. - puts people in positions where they must make choices between terrible options. Then, we punish them for their circumstances, and further restrict their access to opportunity by locking them up. Inside a jail or prison, you can't secure income, secure housing, or secure any of those basic needs for your future. Your time has stopped. Jails and prisons also place so much stress and anxiety on a person that they deteriorate your mental health and make it harder for you to concentrate on achieving these higher goals, as opposed to focusing on your immediate safety and basic needs.

This story explains the challenges in the fabric of our society that I hope to change.

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17th Suffolk District

Kevin Honan (D)

17th Worcester District

David LeBoeuf (D)

18th Essex District

Tram Nguyen (D)

18th Middlesex District

Tara Hong (D)

18th Suffolk District

Michael Moran (D)

18th Worcester District

Joseph McKenna (R)

19th Middlesex District

David Allen Robertson (D)

19th Suffolk District

Jeffrey Turco (D)

19th Worcester District

Kate Donaghue (D)

20th Middlesex District

Bradley Jones (R)

21st Middlesex District

Kenneth Gordon (D)

22nd Middlesex District

Marc Lombardo (R)

23rd Middlesex District

Sean Garballey (D)

24th Middlesex District

David Rogers (D)

25th Middlesex District

Marjorie Decker (D)

26th Middlesex District

Mike Connolly (D)

27th Middlesex District

Erika Uyterhoeven (D)

28th Middlesex District

Joseph McGonagle (D)

29th Middlesex District

Steven Owens (D)

30th Middlesex District

Richard Haggerty (D)

31st Middlesex District

Michael Day (D)

32nd Middlesex District

Kate Lipper-Garabedian (D)

33rd Middlesex District

Steven Ultrino (D)

34th Middlesex District

Christine Barber (D)

35th Middlesex District

Paul Donato (D)

36th Middlesex District

Colleen Garry (D)

37th Middlesex District

Danillo Sena (D)

Democratic Party (134)

Republican Party (25)

Unenrolled (1)

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Catia Sharp

Contents

Biography

Elections

2020

General election

General election for Massachusetts House of Representatives 27th Middlesex District

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Massachusetts House of Representatives 27th Middlesex District

Endorsements

Campaign themes

2020

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also

External links

Footnotes

Information about voting

2025 Elections

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