Her district, the 27th Middlesex, includes well-off, progressive liberals and working-class people. It also has the only two high-rise public housing projects in Cambridge.
Wolf says her own background has helped her to appreciate the needs of immigrants and lower-class people.
At age five, Wolf fled with her family from Austria, fearing Nazi persecution. She grew up in a Boston boarding house and was the first in her family to go to college.
"My family fled persecution. That has made me concerned about having a climate where people can speak out," she says.
Wolf's first speech before the state House was to propose $40 million in funding to help immigrants, who had been cut off from social services by federal welfare reform in 1994.
"[Wolf] is very wrapped up with issues, anything important to this district," says Evan B. Rauch'92, chair of the Cambridge Democratic City Committee.
Among her pet issues is education, where she tried to oppose efforts to lower the standards for special education.
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