Elizabeth Bisio
She/Her
Currently: Head of Product and Operations at Tandem
Election history: 1st-time candidate
She/Her
Currently: Head of Product and Operations at Tandem
Election history: 1st-time candidate
Elizabeth Bisio is a startup founder, tech executive, and former ER nurse renting in Cambridge Crossing. She has not filled out any candidate questionnaires published to public domain (yet).
Elizabeth is a first time candidate. In interviews, she has said the City should "slow down" implementation of the Cycling Safety Organization, and instead focus on intersections. She is against any project that eliminates parking "without clear alternatives." She is running as part of the Repeal Slate to roll back the Multifamily Housing Ordinance.
She has a Springer Spaniel, a cat, and two horses.
In general, Elizabeth Bisio is skeptical of the new ordinances around new construction. She is does not believe building codes are sufficient to ensure build quality, and feels design review boards can solve that problem, and wants to reintroduce such additional steps instead of allowing housing construction by-right.
According to her campaign website, her horses do not live in Cambridge.
"Yes, we need more affordable housing but ... is it going to be something that makes sense with the neighborhood?"
"We can build as much housing as we want, but if it's not going to last more than 10 years, we're just going to have these cycles of demolition and rebuilding."
"The stuff that's being built today, they're actually expecting the building to depreciate over 10 years so they can knock it down and build up something new. Because everybody wants something that's brand new."
(On the Cycling Safety Ordinance) "It's a little half-assed."
"I talk to residents, and they feel like the City has been really kind of disrespectful with their tax money. We're paying for all these programs, but how is it benefiting me? Is it really something I can utilize?"
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Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association City Council Candidate Night 2025
Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association City Council Candidate Night 2025
Porter Square Neighborhood Association and Baldwin Neighborhood Council City Council Candidate Forum at Lesley University
Porter Square Neighborhood Association and Baldwin Neighborhood Council City Council Candidate Forum at Lesley University
"This year, we turned the traditional format upside down: community members with lived experience will speak first, and candidates will listen and respond. We heard directly about pressing issues like housing, mental health, and food security—and learn how candidates plan to act on them."
"This year, we turned the traditional format upside down: community members with lived experience will speak first, and candidates will listen and respond. We heard directly about pressing issues like housing, mental health, and food security—and learn how candidates plan to act on them."
Zoom-based panel run by 350Mass, Mothers Out Front, Green Cambridge, Elders Climate Action, others.
Zoom-based panel run by 350Mass, Mothers Out Front, Green Cambridge, Elders Climate Action, others.
The demands of campaigning have been eye-opening for first-time candidate Elizabeth Bisio – “you have to be everywhere all at once,” she said, noting that since the start of October she’s had an event every single day.
But Bisio, who runs a small business and is pregnant (due in February), says she now feels much more connected to the community. She notes campaigning means she has for the first time ventured into Cambridge Crossing, which she jokingly calls “West Charlestown.” She said “I would never have met (people in that neighborhood)” if not for her run for office. “That community is mostly high-rises so upzoning is not an issue at all. Bike lanes are their issue.”
Oct. 27, 2025 — Michael F. FitzgeraldThe demands of campaigning have been eye-opening for first-time candidate Elizabeth Bisio – “you have to be everywhere all at once,” she said, noting that since the start of October she’s had an event every single day.
But Bisio, who runs a small business and is pregnant (due in February), says she now feels much more connected to the community. She notes campaigning means she has for the first time ventured into Cambridge Crossing, which she jokingly calls “West Charlestown.” She said “I would never have met (people in that neighborhood)” if not for her run for office. “That community is mostly high-rises so upzoning is not an issue at all. Bike lanes are their issue.”
Bisio took aim at the contentious upzoning to eliminate single-family zoning, which she said did not adequately take residents’ perspectives into account. She hopes to reinstate design review — a process that allows residents, especially those who live near proposed developments, to have significantly more oversight before the city approves a proposal.
Oct. 27, 2025Bisio took aim at the contentious upzoning to eliminate single-family zoning, which she said did not adequately take residents’ perspectives into account. She hopes to reinstate design review — a process that allows residents, especially those who live near proposed developments, to have significantly more oversight before the city approves a proposal.
“They could pry DEI from my cold dead fingers,” said challenger Elizabeth Bisio, former emergency room nurse. “It’s so important to have those programs in place to make sure that we’re giving equal opportunity.”
Oct. 15, 2025 — Ann E. Gombiner and Dionise Guerra-Carrillo“They could pry DEI from my cold dead fingers,” said challenger Elizabeth Bisio, former emergency room nurse. “It’s so important to have those programs in place to make sure that we’re giving equal opportunity.”
A “Repeal Slate” coalition of four Cambridge City Council candidates in next month’s election – Elizabeth Bisio, John Hanratty, Peter Hsu and Zion Sherin – hopes to replace some of the eight incumbents running with a platform of slowing down housing construction enabled by recent zoning changes.
“Repeal neighborhood upzoning,” says a page on Hanratty’s website asking voters to use their top four votes for the Repeal Slate candidates. In Cambridge’s ranked form of balloting, candidate votes can transfer; slates are a way to keep a transferred vote within a group of like-minded politicians, increasing the chances of seeing their positions represented after elections.
The slate members “announce that they are running under a unified message to take back neighborhoods that are already being decimated by a tsunami of developer tear-downs fueled by the neighborhood upzoning,” the candidates wrote in a press release. “Homeowners and others will be paying higher taxes in return for losing the neighborhoods they love, sunlight, fresh air, privacy, parking and simply their peace and quiet.”
Oct. 12, 2025 — Jane PetersenA “Repeal Slate” coalition of four Cambridge City Council candidates in next month’s election – Elizabeth Bisio, John Hanratty, Peter Hsu and Zion Sherin – hopes to replace some of the eight incumbents running with a platform of slowing down housing construction enabled by recent zoning changes.
“Repeal neighborhood upzoning,” says a page on Hanratty’s website asking voters to use their top four votes for the Repeal Slate candidates. In Cambridge’s ranked form of balloting, candidate votes can transfer; slates are a way to keep a transferred vote within a group of like-minded politicians, increasing the chances of seeing their positions represented after elections.
The slate members “announce that they are running under a unified message to take back neighborhoods that are already being decimated by a tsunami of developer tear-downs fueled by the neighborhood upzoning,” the candidates wrote in a press release. “Homeowners and others will be paying higher taxes in return for losing the neighborhoods they love, sunlight, fresh air, privacy, parking and simply their peace and quiet.”
Elizabeth Bisio, another challenger, said in her speech that the “one size fits all” approach of the ordinance does not protect “what makes our neighborhood special.”
Oct. 10, 2025 — Dionise Guerra-CarrilloElizabeth Bisio, another challenger, said in her speech that the “one size fits all” approach of the ordinance does not protect “what makes our neighborhood special.”
Elizabeth Bisio, an aspirant to City Council, said “People value multifamily and affordable housing, but are concerned about impact and unintentional consequences. When you talk to people, they have more similarities than differences, but in public comment you’re not hearing that. And the Pacs exacerbate that.”
Sept. 23, 2025 — Michael FitzgeraldElizabeth Bisio, an aspirant to City Council, said “People value multifamily and affordable housing, but are concerned about impact and unintentional consequences. When you talk to people, they have more similarities than differences, but in public comment you’re not hearing that. And the Pacs exacerbate that.”