2015-2016 Session
Change SessionSenator Becca Balint
- District
- Windham District
- Party
- Democrat
- Seat Number
- 17
- bbalint@leg.state.vt.us
- Phone
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- Home Address
- 115 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05633
- Committees
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- Senate Committee on Economic Development, Housing and General Affairs, Clerk
- Senate Committee on Institutions, Clerk
- Legislative Committee on Judicial Rules
- Art in State Building Advisory Panel, Designee
- Workforce Development Council
- Biography
- REBECCA A. BALINT of Brattleboro, Windham County, Democrat, was born in a US Army hospital in Heidelberg, Germany where her dad was stationed. She was raised predominantly in upstate New York and attended public schools in Peekskill. She received her BA from Smith College in Northampton, MA, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Rebecca earned her masters in education from Harvard University in 1995 and her MA in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2001. Her career in education has been spent teaching in public and private schools in New England, as well as at the Community College of Vermont. She first moved to Vermont in 1994 to teach rock climbing at the Farm and Wilderness Foundation in Plymouth and relocated permanently to Vermont in 1997. She went on to direct Saltash Mountain Camp at Farm and Wilderness, a coed wilderness adventure camp for 11-15 year olds. She has served on Brattleboro's Development Review Board and as an elected town meeting representative from her district in Brattleboro. She writes a popular weekly op-ed column in the Brattleboro Reformer, serves on the workforce committee of the Southeastern Vermont Economic Development Strategies (SeVEDS), and is a CTI-trained coach who works with groups and individual clients on fulfilling professional and personal goals. She is also an avid runner. Rebecca lives with her wife, attorney Elizabeth R. Wohl, and their two children, Abraham and Sadie.
Bills and Resolutions Sponsored by Senator Balint
2015 - 2016 Legislative Session
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Roll Call Votes by Senator Balint
2015 - 2016 Legislative Session
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