About Brie

Brie Choate was raised by her mother Mary, a VA Medical Center ICU nurse, in Manchester, NH and spent long summers in rural Maine with her hardworking family of loggers, electricians, nurses and clerks. Brie's first brush with politics was listening to her grandmother tell dinnertime stories from her time as a selectboard member in Shirley Mills, Maine.

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The travel bug took hold and Brie spent her late teens and 20s on the road working across America serving tables, whitewater raft guiding and performing social service work like canvassing for an environmental protection nonprofit and organizing meal time volunteers at a local women's shelter. 

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Vocational training offered the chance to better make ends meet and Brie became a skilled diesel mechanic and welder for Boston Duck Tours. After she met her talented mechanic, antique car enthusiast, and snowboarding husband Mike, the two decided to move from Saugus, MA to Pike, NH to live in the White Mountains. 

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In 2018, the local sale of a small auto repair shop was an opportunity the Choates couldn't pass up. Today Mike's Garage celebrates 8 years of serving the Woodsville community with honest hard work. The success of their small business has given Brie the recent opportunity to pursue a lifelong goal: earning a college degree. Drawing on a career of public-facing work, an insatiable curiosity, and a deep commitment to civic empowerment and empathy, she is now earning a Master's in Public Administration at the University of New Hampshire.

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When Brie isn't writing a paper, she is committed to organizing fun community events with the Northern Grafton County Democrats as Member at Large as well as Chairwoman of the Haverhill Democrats. Mike and Brie have two cats at home and love backpacking and kayaking (without the cats). An avid hiker, Brie once hiked all 48 of NH's 4000-footers in 9 weeks starting December 2020. A winter single-season was a wild choice and accurate paper maps were her source of success!