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Ruthzee Louijeune

Ruthzee Louijeune (born 1987) is an American politician and lawyer serving as president of the Boston City Council. She has been an at-large member of the Boston City Council since January 2022, and has served as the council's president since January 2024. She is the first Haitian-American to serve on the council.

Louijeune is the daughter of immigrants to the United States from Haiti.

She was raised in the Hyde Park and Mattapan neighborhoods of Boston. She attended Charles H. Taylor Elementary School, and graduated from Boston Latin School in 2004. During high school, she interned in the office of State Representative Marie St. Fleur as part of the Ward Fellowship Program.

Louijeune moved to New York City in order to attended Columbia University, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2008. After earning her undergraduate degree, she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she attended Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School, earning a master's degree in public policy and a Juris Doctor in 2014. At Harvard Law School, she was a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

Louijeune worked as an attorney for Perkins Coie. Louijeune also served as senior counsel for Elizabeth Warren's 2020 presidential campaign. During the 2018 elections, Louijeuene worked in the state of Maine as an election lawyer. In 2021, Sean Philip Cotter of the Boston Herald described Louijeune as being a protégé of Warren.

Loujuene founded Opening PLLC, a legal and advocacy firm. The firm conducts consulting and works on affordable homeownership agreements in Boston.

Louijeune has been involved as a volunteer with the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance, representing low-income individuals in the housing court. In her work with them, she has fought against eviction and to promote homeownership. She has worked with them in their efforts to increase homeownership opportunities in Boston for first-generation home buyers. She is considered to be a housing advocate.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Loujeune volunteered with Guild Works to deliver food to food insecure and financially struggling residents of the Dorchester neighborhood.

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