Meg Robbins for City Council At Large 2025
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Meg Robbins for City Council At Large 2025
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  • Where I'm from
  • Where I stand
  • Thinking About Change
  • City Council Meetings
  • Strategic Planning is Key
  • Potholes and Planning
  • Media Campaign Coverage
  • Donate and Thanks!
  • Signs!
  • Why Meg?

Where I'm From meg robbins

Northampton has been our home for over fifty years.

We witnessed the ‘old’ city of soda fountains, haberdasheries. neighborhood schools and a pre-mall downtown morph through many changes. Our community has opened arms to many new residents in recent years who share the same love and commitment to our community that prior generations have celebrated. Our own six sons have grown along with the community; four educated in city schools (two at Amherst).  We take great pleasure in our local grandchildren   learning through Northampton Public Schools and enjoying sports, music, friends and a lot of Bueno Y Sano burritos.   


What I Learned

  I’ve stuffed a lot into my thus far lifetime experience-some of that has been:  

  • Teaching for years as a project-based middle and high school history teacher (and yes, I loved  teaching eighth grade!) with some of that working primarily with students with trauma induced special needs. 
  • A proud early Smith College Ada Comstock Scholar alum in American Studies and Political Economy and  an MEd in history and education from UMass.
  •  Waitstaff, nurse, short order cook, single parent of four small children and a not very successful horse racing jump jockey.  
  •  7th son is a  dear hairy pony named Lad, who lives on a farm in Whately and carries me literally over hill and dale and sometimes rivers. My children know that all they will inherit when the time comes is an ancient horse.
  • Twenty years as an educational consultant and whole school change coach, I worked with the Coalition for Essential Schools, Small Schools Project, vocational schools  and middle school Turning Points in districts across the nation, and with my colleague in our own company OzmaHouse. 
  • National Critical Friends Group Facilitator and CFG Trainer.
  •  Historian.
  • I have always been a writer -including a stint authoring Gazette features on downtown Northampton for Marietta Pritchard in the  80’s.
  •   A curious teenager, I once lent my energy towards levitating the Pentagon. 
  • Raised and educated in the Society of Friends (Quakers) and value the ethic of speaking truth to power.   
  • Part of organizing two UAW District 65 union shops and been both a building rep and a district vice president with the MTA.  
  • NPS School Committee Member Ward 1
  • NHS School Council Member 2025
  • 5 years JFK School Council
  • Member 2025 Strategic Plan Working Group on School Consolidation and  Mitigating Student Loss
  •  A regular and thoughtful voice  at council and committee  public comment sessions.  
  • Deeply involved in shepherding school funding proposals to  State House  bills, by working with similarly impacted districts and legislators across the Commonwealth.
  • A strong belief  in an active citizenry.
  • Finance savvy, good researcher, does homework, comes prepared



As that committed and curious lifelong learner, it’s been a truly lively educational experience.  I am a firm believer in following through.


Lad upstream

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