A pro-Mamdani, Medicare-for-all scientist is running to replace Chip Roy in Congress

A progressive scientist is running for a second time in Republican firebrand U.S. Rep. Chip Roy’s 21st District — and she’s doing with it an unflinchingly pro-science and pro-Medicare-for-all platform.

Kristin Hook — who’s also pro-vaccine, pro-Bernie Sanders and pro-Zohran Mamdani — is running to replace Roy as he pursues the office of Texas Attorney General. If elected, Hook would be the first-ever woman with a STEM PhD to serve in Congress, and the first woman to represent her district, which includes parts of San Antonio. Though it formerly included parts of Austin, that has since been gerrymandered out of her district.

Hook is a Cornell University grad with a PhD in animal behavior, so it sounds like she’ll be perfect in Congress.

Jokes aside, Hook comes with quite the resume, including stints as a Congressional Science and Technology Fellow for U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and the National Institutes of Health. She’s also served as a biological scientist for the U.S. Government Accountability Office and did more recent work as a consultant for startups and political candidates.

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(San Antonio Current)