About Brie

Brie Choate was raised by her mother Mary, a VA Medical Center ICU nurse, in Manchester, NH and spent 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 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 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 hard, honest work. The success of their small business has given Brie the chance to pursue a lifelong goal: earning a college degree. Drawing on a career of public-facing work and a deep commitment to civic empowerment and team collaboration, she is studying Public Administration at the University of New Hampshire.

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Brie is honored to run to serve Grafton County as Register of Deeds. In the winter of 2020, she hiked all 48 of NH's 4,000-footers in only nine weeks and physical paper maps were how she stayed safe. Brie knows the necessity of accurate documentation, the preservation of property records, and professional public service. Together as a team, she and the county office employees will continue to deliver great service and the preservation of Grafton’s essential public records.