Jillian Harvey (she/her) serves as the inaugural Chief Equity Officer for the Massachusetts Municipal Association. She previously served as the Director of the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Division of Health & Human Services for the Town of Arlington, MA for close to five years. She received a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and completed the Master of Public Affairs (MPA) program at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. She has been a member of the Coalition on Racial Equity (CORE) in Mental Health Steering Committee since 2020 and is the co-founder and immediate past chair of the Massachusetts Municipal DEI Coalition. Jillian has served as President of the Mystic Valley Area Branch of the NAACP since 2022, is a community facilitator with Narrative 4, and is a consultant and co-founder of HarveyRochman Consulting, LLC.