Alexandra Kasser

On June 22, 2021, Kasser announced her resignation from public office, saying that her ability to do her job was impeded by ongoing divorce litigation with Seth Bergstein. In 2010, a decade before the divorce, Kasser came out to Bergstein as gay and asked for a divorce, which he refused.

In the State Senate, Kasser led a failed effort to re-install tolls on Connecticut's state highways, and create an Infrastructure Bank in Connecticut. Kasser introduced a bill providing tax credits to employers who make payments on employee's student loans. An amended version of the bill was passed in the State Senate in May 2019, and signed into law by governor Ned Lamont the following month.

In the 2018 election, Kasser, a political newcomer, defeated five-term Republican incumbent, Scott Frantz, becoming the first Democrat to represent Greenwich in the State Senate since 1930, and the first Democrat to win the 36th Senate district since 1933. Kasser won by about 600 votes. In 2020, Kasser won re-election by a margin of about 1,100 votes.

After filing for divorce, Kasser began dating her current partner, Nichola Samponaro, a political consultant and Realtor who grew up in Greenwich, CT. Samponaro volunteered as Kasser’s 2018 and 2020 campaign manager and briefly worked as her Chief of Staff in 2018.

From 2012-2016 Kasser was Chairman of the Mount Sinai Children's Environmental Health Center board, an organization dedicated to advancing research on the environmental and epigenetic causes of children’s diseases including cancer. Kasser is the founder of The Parity Partnership, a non-profit dedicated to advancing gender equality in the public and private sectors. She was also Chairman of Greenwich Community Gardens and has served on various boards dedicated to helping children, such as Kids in Crisis.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kasser was raised in Montclair, New Jersey and is the daughter of Mary Mochary and Judge Stephen E. Mochary (d. 2001) . She is the sister of Matt Mochary.

Kasser received her bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University in 1988. In 1993, she received a Juris Doctor from University of Chicago Law School a Masters in Environmental Law and Policy from Yale University in 2014. In that same year, Kasser became a candidate for a PhD at Yale University.

Alexandra Veronica Mochary Kasser (born May 4, 1967) is an American politician, attorney and advocate who served as a member of the Connecticut State Senate for the 36th district from 2019 to 2021. Connecticut's 36th district covers Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was the first Democrat to be elected to this seat since 1933.