Anna and Toby
Anna Trevorrow grew up in Monmouth, Maine, the daughter of two Maine public school teachers. She attended the non-traditional private school, Evergreen Sudbury School and graduated from U.S.M. with a B.A. in English. Anna has worked for Norway Savings Bank for over 5 years, beginning as a Teller while in college and currently as a Customer Service Representative dealing with new accounts, consumer lending, and sales.
In recent years Anna has become involved in progressive politics at the municipal and state level. She served as Chair of the Green Independent Party state Steering Committee in 2009, and has played a key role in developing party infrastructure.
Her first venture into electoral politics was an unsuccessful run for School Committee in November 2008, followed closely by a successful run for Portland’s Charter Commission in June 2009. On the Charter Commission, Anna advocated for recommending an elected mayor, for electing the mayor by a system of ranked choice voting, and for tying the mayoral salary to the median household income index, all successfully passed.
Ben Chipman and Anna Trevorrow
Anna Trevorrow has a reputation of looking out for marginalized members of our community, and a track record of standing up to represent minority perspectives in the public forum.
Anna and her partner, Anthony Zeli, live together on Congress Street in District 120.
For more information, check out Anna's interview with The Maine View and with The Maine League of Young Voters.
“For a Better Tomorrow”
The slogan, “Anna Trevorrow for a Better Tomorrow” is more than a convenient rhyme. Anna wished to honor her grandfather, Fredrick Trevorrow who ran for state senate in early 50’s era Connecticut under the slogan, “Fred Trevorrow for a Better Tomorrow.” Fred was a staunch Democrat and an American Baptist Minister whose sermons themes regularly focused on helping your neighbor, and treating all people with kindness and generosity. One of his political projects was to desegregate community beaches in Connecticut.
Fred held socialistic leaning views in a time where such views were unpopular. He was blacklisted and Anna's father remembers the drive-by shootings at his childhood home, which represented the hostile backlash of Fred's radical (at the time) political work.
