Contact: Aly Ferguson
aly@newpolitics.org; 480-363-6465
WASHINGTON D.C. (October 14, 2026) — New Politics today announced its endorsement of Kristina Knickerbocker for U.S. Congress in Ohio’s 10th Congressional District. Knickerbocker served as a major and nurse in the U.S. Air Force and now cares for cancer patients as a neuro-oncology nurse practitioner. Her record of servant leadership is core to New Politics’ mission.
Emily Cherniack, Founder and Executive Director of New Politics, released the following statement:
“Kristina Knickerbocker has spent her career taking care of people, first in uniform and now at the bedside of cancer patients. She understands what our broken healthcare system costs families, and is running for Congress to fix it. Ohio’s 10th District deserves a leader who puts country first, and Kristina has done that her whole life. New Politics is proud to endorse her.”
Kristina Knickerbocker is a U.S. Air Force veteran, oncology nurse practitioner, and mom of two whose life has been dedicated to serving our country and our community. Raised in a family that valued church and volunteering at local food pantries, she learned the meaning of hard work early, juggling multiple jobs to put herself through school before following in her grandmother’s footsteps to earn her nursing degree and join the Air Force. Her service brought her to the Miami Valley, where, as a major and nurse in the 88th Air Base Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, she led teams that improved medical care, health outcomes, and readiness for active duty servicemembers, veterans, and military families, and later strengthened deployment readiness for military and humanitarian missions with the 445th Aeromedical Staging Squadron. While serving in the Air Force Reserves, she found her passion as a Neuro-Oncology Nurse Practitioner at The Ohio State University Medical Center, caring for cancer patients across the region and seeing the broken healthcare system firsthand, from understaffed facilities to skyrocketing premiums and prescription costs that force patients to choose between treatment and groceries. That system failed Kristina herself when complications during her second pregnancy and childbirth, made worse by medical professionals who didn’t listen to her, proved nearly fatal, an experience that underscored the importance of patients advocating for themselves. Today, Kristina and her husband Bret, an attorney and small business leader, are proudly raising their two young children in the Yellow Springs area near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Learn more at kristinaknickerbocker.com.
New Politics is an organization that revitalizes American democracy by recruiting, developing, and electing leaders across the ideological and political spectrum who have committed their lives to serving their communities and our country, either through military service, national service organizations like AmeriCorps or the Peace Corps, or by demonstrating strong service-based leadership in their community. New Politics' support includes strategic advising and training in all aspects of a candidate's campaign, such as fundraising, communications, organizing, hiring, and team building. New Politics has raised over $40 million to support over 475 candidates, successfully electing more than 200 of them to office, from Congress to School Board. Learn more at newpolitics.org.
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