Doris Bunte, July 2, 1933 - February 15, 2021
Doris was a Massachusetts state representative and an administrator of the Boston Housing Authority. She was the first African-American woman to hold either position. She co-founded the Boston Public Housing Tenants Policy Council in 1968. Doris enrolled in Harvard University in 1978, where she earned a certificate in environmental studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and her M.A. degree in education in 1982.
Doris served Boston for decades, uplifting the lives of the most vulnerable people of our commonwealth