Joan Axelrod-Contrada Author

Joan Axelrod-Contrada is a journalist and an author. She currently writes for the BostonWorks and Education sections of the Boston Globe. She has also written two history books for middle school students and has taught at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She lives in Massachusetts. Congressman Richard E. Neal was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1988. He represents the Second District of Massachusetts, which includes cities and towns in western and central Massachusetts. He is a member of the Ways and Means Committee and the Oversight Subcommittee; chairman of the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures; and an At-Large Whip for the House Democrats. Neal is cochairman of the New England Congressional Caucus.