Democrat
Kristina Knickerbocker
Background and Bio
Kristina Knickerbocker earned a bachelor's degree from Azusa Pacific University, completed additional coursework at the University of Southern California, and holds a master's degree in nursing from Ohio State University. She served as a major and nurse in the U.S. Air Force for a decade at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base before leaving the service in 2025. She now works as an oncology nurse practitioner at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, on leave while she runs for Congress. She lives in Yellow Springs with her husband and their two children.
Policy Issue Summaries
- Economy and Taxes: According to Knickerbocker’s campaign, she supports proposals that address the high costs of housing, childcare, groceries, and energy. Her campaign materials express support for repealing tariffs that raise prices, building more affordable housing, and capping childcare costs. She has also stated her support for increasing access to jobs for veterans.
- Data Centers: Knickerbocker’s campaign website highlights her support for policies that lower energy bills by making big corporations—not Ohio families—pay for data center infrastructure.
- Healthcare: Knickerbocker’s campaign materials call for protecting Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, and the Affordable Care Act; supporting a public option to lower premiums and expand care; banning medical debt from wrecking people’s credit; investing in mental health care; increasing access to healthcare for veterans and their families; and protecting reproductive healthcare access. She supports reforms to the healthcare system, specifically to address understaffed facilities, the high costs of insurance premiums, and the affordability of prescription costs. According to her campaign, she also supports policies that support eldercare.
Endorsements
- AFSCME Ohio Council 8
- Buckeye Veterans Coalition
- Committee to Protect Health Care
- EMILY’s List
- End Citizens United
- League of Conservation Voters
- Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate
- Nurses for America
- Ohio AFL-CIO
- Ohio Federation of Teachers
- Planned Parenthood Action Fund
- Reproductive Freedom For All
- Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition PAC
- Springfield/Dayton Area UAW CAP Council
- UFCW Local 75
- VoteVets
Background and Bio
Kristina Knickerbocker earned a bachelor's degree from Azusa Pacific University, completed additional coursework at the University of Southern California, and holds a master's degree in nursing from Ohio State University. She served as a major and nurse in the U.S. Air Force for a decade at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base before leaving the service in 2025. She now works as an oncology nurse practitioner at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, on leave while she runs for Congress. She lives in Yellow Springs with her husband and their two children.
Policy Issue Summaries
- Economy and Taxes: According to Knickerbocker’s campaign, she supports proposals that address the high costs of housing, childcare, groceries, and energy. Her campaign materials express support for repealing tariffs that raise prices, building more affordable housing, and capping childcare costs. She has also stated her support for increasing access to jobs for veterans.
- Data Centers: Knickerbocker’s campaign website highlights her support for policies that lower energy bills by making big corporations—not Ohio families—pay for data center infrastructure.
- Healthcare: Knickerbocker’s campaign materials call for protecting Medicaid, Medicare, CHIP, and the Affordable Care Act; supporting a public option to lower premiums and expand care; banning medical debt from wrecking people’s credit; investing in mental health care; increasing access to healthcare for veterans and their families; and protecting reproductive healthcare access. She supports reforms to the healthcare system, specifically to address understaffed facilities, the high costs of insurance premiums, and the affordability of prescription costs. According to her campaign, she also supports policies that support eldercare.
Endorsements
- AFSCME Ohio Council 8
- Buckeye Veterans Coalition
- Committee to Protect Health Care
- EMILY’s List
- End Citizens United
- League of Conservation Voters
- Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate
- Nurses for America
- Ohio AFL-CIO
- Ohio Federation of Teachers
- Planned Parenthood Action Fund
- Reproductive Freedom For All
- Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition PAC
- Springfield/Dayton Area UAW CAP Council
- UFCW Local 75
- VoteVets
Last Updated:2026-09-24
