Kristin Hook

Dr. Kristin A. Hook is a Democratic candidate who ran for U.S. House in Texas’s 21st Congressional District in 2024. She has worked in federal science and policy roles including the U.S. Senate (as a congressional science and technology policy fellow in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office), the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Government Accountability Office. She earned a Ph.D. in Behavioral Biology from Cornell University and a B.A. in Biology from the University of Texas at Austin.