Carleigh Beriont

Overview

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

Carleigh Beriont provided the following statement:

We want a functioning government, we want to be able to afford to take care of ourselves and our families, we want to be safe, and we want the temperature of our politics turned down.

How do I know this?

Because I have put 20,000 miles on my car over the past 11 months asking people in driveways, libraries, church basements, and living rooms all across our district: "What do you wish politicians understood better?" I believe leadership starts with listening so that we can organize, build power, and make change. I have heard your stories about the hours you have spent on the phone with your insurance companies and the healthcare you canʼt afford, how frustrated you are with the corruption in Washington and money in politics, your horror at what's been happening with ICE, your worries about AI and data centers, your opposition to yet another war in the Middle East, and how many people are really just hanging on by their fingernails right now. The divide in this country is not between regular people--it's between regular people and a political and economic system that does not serve us.

I serve as Chair of the Hampton Select Board, where I see how fully funding our public schools and Medicare for All would deliver property-tax relief to NH residents, and support raising the minimum wage, banning Congressional stock trading, and restoring Congressional war powers. Hampton is a bellwether community, if you can win here, you can win this district.

Previously, I was a public high school teacher in the Marshall Islands (a community still grappling with the legacy of U.S. nuclear testing) and helped lead the successful campaign to unionize Harvard’s graduate student workers, winning higher wages, childcare subsidies, and anti-retaliation protections.

Iʼm running because more of the same won't fix this. We need leaders who listen, can build coalitions, and will prioritize working families and regular people in Washington. Leaders we can trust to act with the integrity and urgency that this moment demands.