EducationUniversity of Texas at Austin — B.S., 2007

Notable personal detailsKristin A. Hook is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Texas’ 21st Congressional District. She is a biological scientist who studied animal behavior and has worked at the National Institutes of Health, and later as a biologist at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. She earned a B.S. and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (2007) and a Ph.D. in behavioral biology from Cornell University (2016).