Chynah Tyler is an American politician from the

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

. She was elected to represent the 7th Suffolk district of the

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. She is a member of the

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and succeeded Gloria Fox in 2016. Tyler grew up in Boston, and attended

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, where she majored in criminal justice. She is a member of the Massachusetts Black and Latino Legislative Caucus.

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