hold Boston accountable to prevent the displacement of low-income residents. The coalition demanded that Boston rehouse its homeless population through the creation of a city-funded rent subsidy program. In 2016, Esters was on the winning team of a hackathon seeking methods to prevent drug addiction and deaths. Esters’ team presented the idea of a mobile van that would visit neighborhoods known for drug-use in Boston. Staff would distribute sterile needles, provide counseling and two-days worth of Suboxone. Esters' innovative contributions have materialized as The Care Zone van, funded by the Kraft Center for Community Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, staffed by AHOPE and BHCHP, as well as the Victory Programs Mobile Prevention Team van. In 2016, Esters co-founded SIFMA Now!, the first Massachusetts coalition to organize and garner public support of supervised injection facilities and drug harm reduction initiatives. Esters advocated for people who use drugs in policy conversations with local government officials. In 2018, Esters was a representative on the Massachusetts Harm Reduction Commission. Esters urged the state to launch a pilot for supervised consumption facilities. The pilot gained support from the Massachusetts Medical Society. Esters taught the Commission that people who use drugs deserve to have a sense of dignity and safety regardless of what substance they use or how they use them." In 2019, Esters pressed Mayor Marty Walsh to reduce the number of police officers at Mass and Cass. Esters provided insight as a person with lived experience, warning that police harassment of homeless people resting at Mass and Cass encouraged homeless people to use methamphetamine as a means to remain awake, which inadvertently caused symptoms of meth use in irratic and violent behavior. Esters educated stakeholders about how police surveillance pushes people to hastily inject drugs, to avoid being detained for carrying illegal substances, leading to overdose and other health hazards. Esters refused to let people ignore the urgency of the overdose crisis. Once, she interrupted mayor Walsh to express, “My people are dying!” Walsh publicly shared sadness over Esters death, and credited Esters for helping him apply more evidence-based practices to policies regarding substance use. Dr. Mark Eisenberg, said he imagined Esters being dissatisfied with Walsh’s sadness and expressing that if he meant the words he said, he’d work to legalize safe injection facilities. In 2019, Esters told the Massachusetts Legislature that treating chaotic drug use meant treating the inequity, racism, poverty, and trauma