Dr. Jennifer Sclafani presented her research at the Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Meeting in New York City in January. Her poster presentation, “The Sociolinguistic Enregisterment of Local Belonging in Boston’s Mayoral Campaigns”, provides an overview of her examination of how the two final candidates in the 2021 Boston mayoral election—Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu—used language to construct mayoral identities as women of color, children of immigrants, and working mothers. She also examined how the candidates used these identities to voice their position on various policy issues affecting working families in Boston, align themselves with voters, and index local belonging in the city of Boston. Her work provides important insights into how women are changing the voice of public executive leadership in contemporary American politics.