Simon Joseph Cataldo is a Massachusetts State Representative (D-14th Middlesex District, representing Concord), elected in 2022 and re-elected unopposed in 2024. He serves as House Vice-Chair of the Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, and as a member of the Joint Committees on Education, Judiciary, and Financial Services. He is also co-chair of the state Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism. Cataldo grew up in West Concord, Massachusetts, with his parents—a social worker mother who worked at Concord Family Services and an economist father who taught accounting at Suffolk University and the University of Rhode Island—and two sisters. He attended Thoreau Elementary School, Peabody Middle School, and graduated from Concord-Carlisle High School, where he was bar mitzvahed at Kerem Shalom Synagogue, remaining a member today. He holds a B.A. in environmental science (magna cum laude) from Colorado College (2008), an M.S. in urban education from City University of New York (2010), and a J.D. from University of Virginia School of Law (2014), where he served as Managing Editor of the Virginia Law Review. Professionally, he taught special education math at Frederick Douglass Academy in Harlem, NYC, through Teach for America (2008–2011); founded and serves as Board President of Harlem Lacrosse, a national nonprofit aiding over 1,300 at-risk students in multiple cities and securing $60M+ in scholarships; clerked for Judge William J. Kayatta Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals; and worked as a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Public Integrity Section, prosecuting public corruption cases including those involving Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Judge Joseph Boeckmann, Scott Maddox, and James King. In his first term, he filed 24 bills on education, renewable energy, workforce development, and public safety. Cataldo is Jewish, married to Chessie, and father to four sons. He resides in Concord, Massachusetts, and serves on the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston.