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Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui (she/her) is serving her third term as Mayor of Cambridge, and her fourth term on the Cambridge City Council. She is the first Muslim mayor in Massachusetts, the first female mayor to serve two consecutive terms in Cambridge, and the first female to be the first elected to the City Council under Cambridge’s proportional representation voting system for four consecutive elections.
Mayor Siddiqui immigrated to the United States from Karachi, Pakistan at the age of two, along with her parents and twin brother. She was raised in Cambridge affordable housing, first at the Rindge Towers in North Cambridge and then Roosevelt Towers in East Cambridge. She attended Cambridge Public Schools, graduating from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS). While at CRLS, her passion for service and youth representation led her to co-find the Cambridge Youth Council, which continues to thrive today. She earned her bachelor's degree in public policy and American institutions from Brown University, then served as an AmeriCorps fellow at New Profit, a then Cambridge-based organization dedicated to improving social mobility for families. After earning her J.D. from Northwestern's Pritzker School of Law, she practiced as a legal aid attorney with Northeast Legal Aid.
Throughout her tenure, Mayor Siddiqui has been charged with demonstrating steady leadership at critical moments for Cambridge. During the COVID-19 pandemic, her office helped coordinate testing and vaccination efforts, public school closures, and rapid relief programs that included the establishment of the Mayor's Disaster Relief Fund, which raised over $5 million to support individuals, small businesses, and nonprofits. She has advanced Cambridge's first charter reform in decades and convened various task forces and ad-hoc working groups to work on issues including universal pre-kindergarten, fare free transit, homelessness, and the climate crisis.
Mayor Siddiqui has also championed community-centered policies that reflect her deep roots in Cambridge and her lifelong commitment to equity and opportunity. On housing, she has been a driving force behind landmark zoning reforms — including the Affordable Housing Overlay working consistently to preserve and expand the city's affordable housing stock. She sponsored the Tenants’ Rights and Resources Notification Ordinance, and supported investments in homeownership opportunities.
She launched Cambridge RISE, one of the nation's first guaranteed income pilots, and worked to expand it into Rise Up Cambridge, a $22 million ARPA-funded initiative that provided $500 monthly payments to approximately 2,000 families, and was the first non-lottery guaranteed income program in the country. Her accomplishments in early education include advancing the Cambridge Preschool Program to offer free preschool for all four-year-olds and spearheading an Early College Program enabling high school students to earn up to two years of college credit at no cost. A steadfast advocate for immigrant residents, she has secured increased city funding for legal service providers and supported Know Your Rights trainings to help community members access their legal protections.
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