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Sandra Pressley, mother of City Councillor At-Large Ayanna Pressley, passed away Friday morning of complications from leukemia. She was 63. In a 2009 interview with the Boston Globe, when Pressley, an Ashmont resident who was running for City Council for the first time, said, “My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create ...
- Who Is Ayanna Pressley?
- Early Life and Education
- Political Career
- Alopecia
- Sexual Assault
- Personal Life
A Chicago native, Ayanna Pressley moved to Boston to attend college, and began her political career working for Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, before working for then-Senator John Kerry in various roles for 13 years. Before her election to Congress, where she became part of a group known as “The Squad,” Pressley served as the Boston City Council...
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on February 3, 1974, and raised in what she described as a “tough” Chicago neighborhood, Ayanna Soyini Pressley is the only childof tenants’ rights organizer Sandra Pressley and Martin Terrell, who struggled with heroin addiction and spent 16 years in and out of prison. Pressley’s father later overcame his addiction and bec...
Pressley worked for Congressman Kennedy for two years, first as an unpaid intern in his Roxbury office while in college, and then as a paid staffer helping seniors access Social Security benefits. After volunteering for then-Senator Kerry’s 1996 reelection campaign, she went on to work for the eventual Secretary of State for 13 years in a variety o...
In January 2020, Pressley revealed in a video for The Root that she has alopecia, the official medical term for baldness, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. "I've only been bald in the privacy of my home and in the company of close friends,” she explained, adding that she felt it was important to be transparent to help others dealing...
Pressley revealed in 2011 that she had been raped both during childhood and when she was a 19-year-old Boston University student. According to The Boston Globe, she was working as a resident assistant the summer after her freshman year someone she knew raped her, but she never reported the assault because of the social isolation and shame she felt....
Pressley met husband Conan Harris, then the manager of an anti-violence initiative called StreetSafe Boston, in 2011, and the pair married three years later in 2014. She became a stepmom to Harris’ daughter, Cora, calling her role as a “bonus mom” a gift. “It was inferred that by calling Cora my step-daughter, I am creating a distinction or a step ...
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Sep 8, 2018 · During her sophomore year in 1994, her life was rocked again when Sandra Pressley, who had moved to New York, lost her job as an executive assistant at Time Warner. Pressley dropped out of BU...
Apr 5, 2019 · Pressley, a Boston Democrat, spoke about her mother Sandra Pressley who “depending on the day, was beaten for being too pretty, too ugly, too smart, too dumb,” she said. Pressley Sandra Pressley died of complications from leukemia in July 2011.
Apr 29, 2022 · Sandra Pressley Obituary. It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Sandra Pressley of Waynesville, North Carolina, who passed away on April 24, 2022, at the age of 69, leaving to mourn family and friends. You can send your sympathy in the guestbook provided and share it with the family. She was predeceased by : her father Sewell ...
Feb 16, 2023 · Pressley's mother Sandra passed away in 2011 after a long battle with leukemia. She stopped by Studio 3 on Valentine's Day to talk about her work, what's inspiring her, and what's giving her...
