Ben Weber is serving his second term as the District 6 City Councilor representing Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury, as well as parts of Mission Hill, Roslindale, and Roxbury. Prior to being elected to the City Council, Ben worked for 18 years as a worker’s rights attorney, with a focus on combatting wage theft.

As a City Councilor, Ben has sought to protect Boston’s most vulnerable residents.  In his maiden speech on the council, Ben called for the City of Boston to launch an Access to Counsel program to provide legal services to Boston residents in eviction proceedings. In June 2024, the City of Boston funded a first-in-the-nation Access to Counsel pilot program which provides attorneys to any family with school-aged children in Boston who face eviction. The pilot program was expanded in June 2025.  

Additionally, Ben advocated for an extra day of programming for seniors in West Roxbury and for funding of a youth services coordinator and mentors at the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments in Jackson Square. Both requests were supported by Mayor Michelle Wu and funded during Ben’s first term.

Seeing construction workers suffering from heat exposure during the summer, Ben also drafted and passed an ordinance requiring all employees of the City and City contractors to be covered by heat illness prevention plans during heat emergencies.    

Ben began his legal career in 2005 when he earned a national Equal Justice Works Fellowship to work for Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid representing migrant farmworkers with claims for unpaid wages and unsafe housing and working conditions. From 2008 through 2012, Ben served as an Assistant Attorney General with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in both the Fair Labor Division, where he prosecuted employers for violating state wage law, and in the Administrative Law Division, where he represented state agencies in appeals of their decisions. 

Ben then spent over a decade working with Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C. in Boston, one of the nation’s leading worker’s rights law firms. As an associate and Of Counsel at LLR, Ben represented thousands of workers seeking to recover unpaid wages in class actions across the country. In addition, Ben was part of a legal team that successfully sued the Boston Police Department on behalf of a group of Black and Latino police officers ending the use of discriminatory promotional exams.

Ben and his wife Xan have lived in Jamaica Plain since 2008, where they have raised their two children, Noah, 19, and Hannah, 14, who both attended Boston Public Schools, and their dog, Mason. Ben coached his kids’ soccer teams and served on the board of Jamaica Plain Youth Soccer.

As a BPS parent and worker’s rights advocate, Ben knows first-hand about the challenges that Boston families face. Ben will continue to work to ensure that District 6 residents receive the quick and effective constituent services that they deserve. At the same time, Ben will fight for policies that will help the City reduce the income gap, develop a public school system where every child receives the world-class education they deserve, provide the programming our kids and seniors need, and strengthen the rights of tenants.

Ben was raised in New York, graduated from Brandeis University with a B.A. in History in 1996, and earned his J.D. from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2005.