Carla Gericke is a writer, activist, and former lawyer.
Born in South Africa, she emigrated to America in 1994 after winning a green card in the Diversity Visa Lottery.
She became a U.S.
citizen in 2000.
Gericke is President Emeritus of the Free State Project.
In 2014, she won a landmark First Circuit Court of Appeals case that affirmed the First Amendment right to film police officers.
She was named one of New Hampshire Magazine's "2014 Remarkable Women" In 2016, she ran unopposed in the New Hampshire State Senate District 20 Republican primary, and is the Republican candidate for State Senate for Goffstown and Manchester Wards 3, 4, 10, and 11 in the general election.