Office of State Representative Natalie Higgins

State Representative Natalie Higgins is serving her second term in the 4th Worcester District, representing the City of Leominster. Natalie is a lifelong Leominster resident, first-generation college student, former non-profit director and rape crisis counselor. A 2006 graduate of Leominster High School, Natalie obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from UMass Amherst, earned her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 2014.

While at NUSL, Natalie worked in the Cabinet Affairs Office of Governor Deval Patrick, drafting best practices to protect non-student minors from sexual violence on public college campuses through a Rappaport Fellowship in Law and Policy and traveled to India to work with the Human Rights Law Network’s Reproductive Justice Unit through a PHRGE Fellowship. Natalie went on to become the Executive Director of PHENOM (the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that unites students, staff, faculty, administrators, and community members to advocate for free and accessible public higher education. 

In her second term in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Natalie is the Vice Chair of the House Committee on Personnel and Administration and serves as a member of the Joint Committees on Ways & Means, Health Care Financing, and Mental Health Substance Use & Recovery.