Karishma Manzur

An Exeter resident with a working-class immigrant background, Karishma Manzur earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She spent over two decades conducting medical research on neurological disorders before stepping into grassroots advocacy with organizations like NH Open Democracy Action and NH Peace Action. Grounded in kitchen-table economics, Manzur's Senate platform champions Medicare for All, aggressive investments in affordable housing, congressional stock trading bans, and a humane foreign policy that ends war profiteering while protecting human rights. She refuses all corporate PAC money.