Solomon Goldstein-Rose (born December 5, 1993) is an American politician, climate activist, and author, who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Halfway through his term, he switched his voter registration to unenrolled (Independent) on February 20, 2018, to emphasize current problems with the two-party system and spark conversations about partisanship and national political discourse.
[3] During his term in office, Goldstein-Rose created several civic engagement and civic education programs, including a monthly free dessert discussion, an "UnCampaign" in which he knocked on doors during election off-season to speak with unlikely voters about state politics, a CivicsFest celebration and contest organized with the League of Women Voters of Amherst, talks about government and political issues at local schools, and a monthly guest column in the Amherst Bulletin in which Goldstein-Rose explained details of the Massachusetts legislature's process and discussed current issues.
Goldstein-Rose was also part of a working group that created and successfully passed a bill requiring hands-on civic education in Massachusetts schools.
Goldstein-Rose cancelled his 2018 re-election campaign at the end of the legislative term, announcing he would instead shift to full-time nationally and globally focused work on climate change.