Carleigh Beriont

Overview

Chair, Hampton Select Board; Lecturer, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Organizer, UAW Local 5118

Carleigh Beriont's campaign provided the following biography:

Carleigh Beriont is a union organizer, teacher, local elected leader, and mom of two who has dedicated her life to strengthening communities and fighting for working families.

After graduating from Mount Holyoke College in three years, Carleigh taught in the Marshall Islands, working in a public school system still living with the legacy of U.S. nuclear testing and the impacts of climate change. That experience shaped her belief that it's not enough to point out what's broken, leaders must help build something better.

Back in the United States, Carleigh helped lead the successful campaign to unionize Harvard's graduate student workers, winning higher wages, childcare subsidies, and anti-retaliation protections for thousands of workers.

Carleigh earned a Master of Theological Studies and a Ph.D. from Harvard, where she focused on ethics, American history, and nuclear policy. Since 2022, she has taught at the Harvard Kennedy School, examining how public policy and religion intersect across issues like immigration, climate, labor, education, LGBTQ+ rights, and foreign policy.

Carleigh has also brought her lifelong advocacy to local government, helping elect Democrats across New Hampshire and winning a seat on the Hampton Select Board. As Chair of the Select Board, she has been a strong advocate for public education and fair school funding, climate resilience, clean water, affordable housing, and lower property taxes.

Carleigh is running in New Hampshire's First Congressional District because we deserve a representative who fights for peace, who knows what it's like to go on strike, bargain for a contract, budget for a family on a single income, and serve in elected office.