Boston-based contractor Suffolk has hired a high-profile Massachusetts state senator to be an executive in charge of diversity and community relations.
Massachusetts State Senator Linda Dorcena Forry (D-Dorchester) is leaving public office after 13 years to become Suffolk’s vice president of diversity, inclusion and community relations for the firm's Northeast Region. A Haitian-American and the lone black member of the state Senate, Dorcena Forry was first elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 2005 and won her Senate seat, which represents South Boston and Dorchester, in 2013. The seat was held by an Irish-American for decades prior to her historic victory.