Becca Balint

Becca Balint first came to Vermont in 1994 for a job as a rock climbing instructor and settled permanently three years later.¹ She and her wife, Elizabeth Wohl, an attorney and opera singer, now live in Brattleboro with their two children and dog, Wheelie.¹

Born in Germany in an American Army hospital, Balint is the daughter of an immigrant father and a working class mother; her grandfather was killed in the Holocaust.¹ She graduated from Smith College and earned graduate degrees in education at Harvard and history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.¹

Balint taught in four rural public schools before serving in Vermont's Senate, where she became its first woman president pro tempore.¹ She went on to become Vermont's first congresswoman and serves on the House Judiciary and Budget committees.¹

Her housing proposals include the Community Housing Act, which would fund affordable construction, renter protections and assistance for buyers.² She also supports expanded mental health services, federal abortion protections, stronger gun background checks and protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.² Her November opponents are Republican Gerald Malloy and independents Phoenix K. Altair, Adam Ortiz, Suzanne Seymour and Ryan P. Walton.³