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House of Representatives Co-Chairs

Representative Dan Donahue is the State Representative of the 16th Worcester District, comprised mostly of the ‘east-side’ of Worcester, including Quinsigamond Village and much of the Grafton Hill and Vernon Hill neighborhoods.  More so than most, Dan Donahue is truly a product of his district.  Born and raised in Worcester, Representative Donahue was raised by a union carpenter and a Worcester Public School teacher.  Rep. Donahue attended the College of the Holy Cross (also in his district). After college, he worked as a community outreach worker for CPCS Juvenile & CAFL division, worked as Political Director for former Lt. Governor Tim Murray, before taking a job as Worcester Mayor Joe Petty’s Director of Policy. First elected during a special election in 2013 and re-elected to his first full term in 2014, Representative Donahue is committed to improving the quality of life for residents of Worcester.

Representative Donahue currently represents the 16th Worcester District, which consists of precincts 1, 2, 4 and 5, of ward 5, ward 6, and precincts 1 and 5 of ward 8, of the city of Worcester. 

The Representative has worked to sponsor all different kinds of legislation, including leading the charge on the House side for the Fight for $15 an hour minimum wage bill, preventing wage theft on job sites across the state, and many more relevant to Worcester residents and the Commonwealth as a whole.

Hannah Kane (R – Shrewsbury) serves as the State Representative for the Eleventh Worcester District, representing the towns of Shrewsbury and Westborough, precinct 4, and was sworn in for her fifth term in January 2023.

Hannah serves in the 193rd Legislative Session as the Ranking Minority Member of the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, the Joint Committee on Public Health, and the Joint Committee on Elder Affairs and is a Member of the House Committee on Ethics.

Hannah is deeply committed to public service. Hannah is President of the Hannah Kane Charitable Foundation that hosts a charity golf tournament primarily benefitting Shrewsbury Youth and Family Services, St, Anne’s Human Services and Westborough Food Pantry, donating over $450,000 in her district in the past seven years. Hannah is a Trustee for the Seven Hills Foundation and serves as Advisory Council Chair for Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, CT. Hannah serves as an elected Town Meeting Member for more than 20-years, President of the Shrewsbury Public Schools Foundation and a member of the Shrewsbury Coalition for Addiction Prevention and Education. 

Hannah serves as Minority Leader Bradley H. Jones designee on the Rare Disease Advisory Council, the Women’s Rights History Trail Task Force, the Massachusetts Food Policy Council, the Commission on Malnutrition Prevention Among Older Adults, and the Massachusetts Commission on Unaccompanied Homeless Youth. is a Founder and Co-chair of the first in the nation Food System Caucus and last fall, Hannah launched the MA Legislative Caucus on Cancer Awareness with (now former) Rep. Thomas Golden.

Hannah and her husband Jim have lived in Shrewsbury for twenty-five years and have three children, Madison, Caitlin and Patrick. Madison attends Loyola University in Baltimore, Maryland, Caitlin attends Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts and Patrick attends Saint John’s High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.

Representative Paul Schmid and his wife, Tina, have been married for 46 years and are parents to Celeste and Paul. Paul moved to Westport in 1962, shortly after he began operating River Rock Farm with his family. A certified organic and grass-fed Angus beef farm, River Rock Farm sells beef directly to its consumers and is committed to sustainable farming practices.

A graduate of Harvard College (‘65) and Harvard Business School (’70), Representative Schmid went on to serve six years in the United States Marine Corps. Having served both active and reserve duty, Paul obtained the rank of Sergeant and retired in 1970.  Through his education, business skills, military service, and practical experience Representative Schmid has a wide range of skills at his disposal to serve the people of the 8th Bristol District.

Throughout his time in the legislature, Representative Schmid has sponsored legislation to increase local aid to the communities he represents, as well as, legislation to reduce pollution in local water ways and promote sustainable and regenerative farming practices. He currently serves as Vice Chair for the Joint Committee on Revenue and as a member of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means, the Joint Committee on Public Health, and the House Committee on Redistricting, and the House Committee on Ways and Means.

State Representative Andy X. Vargas represents the 3rd Essex District (Haverhill) in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He serves as the Vice-Chair of the Economic Development and Emerging Technologies Committee. He also serves as a member of the following committees: Ways & Means, Education, Public Health and Redistricting. He is a member of the Massachusetts Black & Latino Legislative Caucus. 

​Rep. Vargas was previously elected to the Haverhill City Council, where he served as the city's first Latino elected official. He grew up in Haverhill and his family origins are from the Dominican Republic. He is a proud graduate of Haverhill High School and Boston University. Rep. Vargas is an alumnus of the Obama White House and previously worked for Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll).  

​Some of his legislation successfully signed into law include: mandating civics education, boosting housing production, expanding school breakfast participation and access to meals in low-income school districts, expanding voting options for overseas military personnel, and creating a new gun violence prevention program within the Department of Public Health.  

He resides in Haverhill with his wife Rikelma– an educator and unfortunately a Yankees fan. They are parents to their son Rubèn and an energetic puppy, Merengue. 

Mindy Domb (D-Amherst) has served as the State Representative from the 3rd Hampshire District, representing the communities of Amherst, Granby and Pelham, since 2018. Immediately prior to taking office, Mindy served as the Executive Director of the Amherst Survival Center. The Center is a one stop location for basic needs, providing food, free health care, and community for residents of Hampshire and Franklin Counties. Services include a food pantry, senior mobile pantry, community kitchen, job search assistance, food recovery, and more. There, she launched Project HungeRX to support assessments of food security in the medical setting and increase referrals to hunger relief programs. She also worked to amplify people’s lived experiences and share their challenges to elected officials through its Feed Democracy project. Previously, she served on Amherst Town Meeting for two terms and worked extensively in the HIV/AIDS epidemic as an educator, trainer, program planner, advocate, community organizer and congressional aide.

She most recently served on the Joint Committees on the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture (ENRA), Higher Education, COVID-19 Oversight, and Revenue. She served on the Special Committee on the Holyoke Soldiers Home COVID-19 Outbreak, the Special Task Force on Human Service Transportation, and is currently a commissioner on The Ellen Story Commission on Postpartum Depression.