Chuck Turner is a Boston City Councilor representing District 7 including Roxbury, Lower Roxbury, and parts of the Fenway, South End, Dorchester. He has worked as an activist for over forty years. During that time, he has served as the director of a community development corporation, an organizer training center, and a placement agency for construction workers of color. He has also worked as a manager/counselor at the nation's oldest batterers' treatment organization and as education director at a nonprofit consulting firm, focused on establishing worker cooperatives. He has a BA from Harvard, was a Community Fellow at MIT, and was awarded an honorary Associates of Arts degree from Roxbury Community College.