Yvonne M. Spicer
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Inauguration of Yvonne M. Spicer as first Mayor of Framingham, Massachusetts, with her hand on a historic bible held by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Katherine Clark
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| 1st Mayor of Framingham, Massachusetts | |
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In office January 1, 2018 – December 31, 2021 |
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Yvonne M. Spicer (born 1962) is an American educator and politician from Framingham, Massachusetts. She was inaugurated on January 1, 2018 as the first Mayor of Framingham, becoming the first African-American woman to be popularly elected mayor in Massachusetts. She was previously the Vice President for Advocacy and Educational Partnerships at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts.
Yvonne Spicer grew up in Brooklyn, New York, the third of four children of Willie and Dorothy Spicer. When she was six years old, a visit to her class by Shirley Chisholm left a lasting impression of the importance of leadership and public service. Spicer's father died when she was ten. She was 13 years old when she got her first job running errands, peeling potatoes and stocking shelves for a Brooklyn restaurant, and her first official job was working for McDonald's. During the summers, she also helped her mother clean houses on the Upper East Side. Spicer attended Catholic middle school and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School, then earned a B.S. in industrial arts & technology in 1984, followed by an M.S. in technology education in 1985, both from the State University of New York at Oswego, from which she was the first African-American woman to graduate. She earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2004.
After graduating from college, Spicer moved to Framingham, Massachusetts in 1985 for a job as a woodworking instructor. She worked in the Framingham Public Schools for 16 years, also teaching drafting, architecture, graphic arts, and photography, and eventually becoming Chair of Technology Education, the first woman to fill that position. During that period she also worked part-time as a realtor. She spent two years as Statewide Technology and Engineering Coordinator at the Massachusetts Department of Education, then five years as Director of Career and Technical Education in the Newton Public Schools. In 2006, Spicer was hired as Associate Director of the Museum of Science (Boston)'s National Center for Technological Literacy, where she rose to Vice President for Advocacy and Educational Partnerships, a division she created and led.
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