ABOUT
Kari MacRae was born in Massachusetts, started her family with her husband David 35 years ago in Plymouth, MA, and has lived in Bourne since 1999. Kari is a mother to four and grandmother to four courageous boys and two beautiful little girls.
Kari has spent the past 3 decades working as a financial banking manager, small business owner, and educator. Kari graduated from Curry College in Plymouth with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, with a minor in Communications and Human Resources. She leveraged her bachelor's degree and Massachusetts Business teaching license over the past 10 years to empower high school students studying marketing, finance, and entrepreneurship. Kari was elected and has served as chair of the Bourne School Committee. Kari ran for state senate for the Plymouth & Barnstable
District in 2022, where she garnered 44% of the vote against a democrat incumbent. In 2024, she fell short of the Republican primary by 37 votes. Since her 2022 and 2024 runs, she has continued to serve on many committees and subcommittees and currently chairs the Bourne School Committee. She served on the Technology Committee, where she advocated and successfully provided all Bourne teachers with their own laptop computers. She served on the Budget Facilities Sub-Committee, where she was instrumental in planning the budget and deciding how to allocate funding. Kari also serves on the Policy sub-committee, where she weighed in, reviewed, and wrote new policies and adjusted them where appropriate. Kari also serves on the Town of Bourne Financial Policy Working Group.