POLITICAL CANDIDATES

Daphne Kenyon

Candidate for State Senate

District 19

Windham, Derry & Hampstead

Daphne Kenyon is running for State Senate as a fiscally conservative Democrat.

Kenyon:

• Opposes an income and sales tax.
• Will work hard to find creative ways to provide property tax relief for overburdened homeowners.
• Will work to accelerate the widening of I-93 and reduce traffic congestion.
• Will fight to ensure that all children receive a high quality education.

Kenyon currently serves on the New Hampshire Board of Education, and was honored to be Governor John Lynch’s first appointee to that board. Kenyon served on the Windham School Board from 2000-2003, a position she earned in a write-in candidacy.

Daphne Kenyon is a professional economist and public policy expert. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from the University of Michigan and her B.A. in economics from Michigan State University. She has been researching state and local government issues for over 25 years. She taught economics at Dartmouth College and Simmons College, where she chaired the department of economics.

Kenyon was a financial economist with the U.S. Department of Treasury and has worked at various think tanks, including the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, which she headed, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, where she currently serves as visiting fellow. Daphne is an expert in education funding, property tax relief and livable wages jobs.

Kenyon has received a number of endorsements or recommendations in her Senate run including from Governor John Lynch, the National Education Association-New Hampshire, New Hampshire AFL-CIO, and New Hampshire Teamsters Union.

Daphne and her husband, Peter Kachavos, have lived in Windham for 19 years. They have one daughter, Elizabeth.