Meet David

TRUSTED COMMUNITY ADVOCATE AND PROVEN PROGRESSIVE LEADER
WITH THE EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE TO DELIVER FOR ALL OF US

Leadership and Service

David LeBoeuf is a lifelong Worcester resident and proud graduate of the district’s public schools. His background — as a small business advisor, family advocate for survivors of domestic violence, and community leader committed to boosting access to healthcare and affordable housing — informs his ongoing fight for the causes that matter most to our communities. As our State Representative, David is delivering results for the 17th Worcester District and fighting for a Commonwealth that works for everyone.

David was first elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 2018, representing the 17th Worcester District. He serves as the Co-Chair of the House Progressive Caucus and sits on the following committees:

• Joint Committees on Children, Families, and Persons with Disabilities

• Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure

• Joint Committee on Housing

• House Committee on Steering, Policy, and Scheduling

David also serves as:

• Chair of the Life Insurance and Financial Planning Committee of the National Council of Insurance Legislators

• Member of the Legislative Committee of the Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission

• Criminal Justice Reform Fellow with Future Caucus

• Member of the Council of State Government Eastern Region’s Housing Committee

Record of results

This session, David's signature accomplishment is a comprehensive child welfare reform that puts real educational resources behind kids in foster care. At its center is an "electronic backpack," a model that uses technology to keep foster youth enrolled in school and ensures their records follow them from one placement to the next. Drawing on his own recovery from addiction, David has pushed to tear down the barriers that keep people from treatment and to change how the child welfare and legal systems treat individuals with substance use disorder.

Alongside that work, he is advocating to catch people before a setback becomes a crisis: keeping medical debt off of credit reports, stopping schools from withholding academic transcripts over unrelated debts, and letting families access rental assistance before an eviction is filed rather than after.

David has also passed legislation expanding early education apprenticeships, and he continues to advocate for adopting universal pre-kindergarten across the Commonwealth.

In an earlier session, David closed a costly gap for public workers, ending the waiting period that left new state employees without health insurance. And when nurses walked the picket line during the historic strike at St. Vincent Hospital, David stood with them, helping pressure the for-profit hospital to reopen the mental health beds it had closed during the dispute.

David sat on the committee that wrote the Massachusetts Affordable Homes Act, the law that legalized Accessory Dwelling Units by right across the Commonwealth. Closer to home, he helped turn the shuttered Becker College campus in Leicester into a new high school, an emergency family shelter, and a Head Start center. He has worked to pull environmental hazards out of housing, to protect residents from price gouging and displacement, and to defend food security for working families, including his work to protect SNAP benefits amid federal cost-sharing changes.

Some of his wins are the quieter kind: fighting for victims of building fires who were taken advantage of by absentee landlords, securing swimming lessons in environmental justice neighborhoods, and investing in the community development corporations that strengthen our small businesses.

David has helped shape consumer-focused insurance policies governing the use of aerial imagery, and he restructured the high-interest loans that were draining small water systems and the ratepayers who depend on them.

Through all of it, David keeps the same focus he started with: making the state government show up for Worcester & Leicester and deliver for the people who call Massachusetts home.

EDUCATION AND EARLY LIFE

David Henry Argosky LeBoeuf was born and raised in Worcester, where he graduated from South High in 2008 as valedictorian and class president. He began college at Clark University before transferring to Harvard, one of only 13 transfer students admitted internationally that year, and graduated in 2013 with a concentration in Social Studies (Community Engagement and Urban Social Change) and a secondary field in Spanish. In 2026 David earned a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as an Urban Scholar with the Rapaport Institute for Greater Boston

David developed an early commitment to public service, advocacy, and local government through hands-on work in civic engagement, journalism, and public policy.  In college he filmed local government meetings for public access television, covered the Cambridge City Council for the Harvard Crimson, and interned with Congressman Jim McGovern's district office and the Attorney General's Central Massachusetts office. He was awarded the Presidential Public Service Fellowship and became a longtime mentor and board member with the African Community Education program (ACE), which supports African refugee and immigrant youth and families in Worcester.

One of David’s first professional roles was as an interim staff assistant in the Worcester City Manager’s Office, where he supported press relations, assisted the License Commission, and contributed to public resource initiatives for seniors and people with disabilities.

Over the following decade, David built a career around expanding opportunity and access across Central Massachusetts.

In housing, he served as Central Massachusetts Coordinator for the campaign to protect the state's affordable housing law, worked as a fellow with the Citizens' Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA), and later served as board president of the Oak Hill Community Development Corporation.

In healthcare, he led a Massachusetts Health Connector outreach team that reached more residents than any other in the state and served on the board of the Latin American Health Alliance. He also strengthened the democratic process as director of the Initiative for Engaged Citizenship, coordinating voter education and candidate forums in historically marginalized precincts and helping advance the 2013 election modernization law.

In education, David was an Early Childhood Policy Academy Fello at the Hunt Institute and an Eastern Leadership Academy Fellow at the Council of State Governments, Eastern Regional Conference (CSG-ERC).

His professional work spanned economic development and small business growth, including roles at the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), where he worked to expand opportunities for veteran-owned and women-owned businesses in underserved communities. Representative LeBoeuf was an Urban Business Associate at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), where he led implementation efforts for Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Amall Business Program.

Through AmeriCorps and the Worcester Community Connections Coalition, he served survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking as a family advocate, and his efforts contributed to passage of the Massachusetts Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights in 2017.

Public Service Rooted in Community

Today, Rep. LeBoeuf continues to bring a community-centered approach to public service, grounded in his lifelong connection to Worcester and his belief that government should expand opportunity, strengthen families, and improve quality of life for all residents. Whether advocating for affordable housing, accessible healthcare, educational equity, consumer protections, or recovery-focused substance use policies, he remains committed to building a more responsive and inclusive district. Through collaboration, constituent engagement, and a focus on practical solutions, Rep. LeBoeuf works to ensure that every resident of the 17th Worcester District has a voice in shaping the future of their community.