Born and raised in Somersworth, NH, Emmett Soldati is a small business owner, entrepreneur, and activist. A graduate of the London School of Economics, Emmett spent the last decade working to connect and uplift the community he knows and loves — his hometown. Emmett made national headlines in 2020 for his historic win in the New Hampshire Supreme Court against Facebook where he represented himself pro se. In 2024 he was the Democratic nominee for the Governor’s Executive Council (District 1) and in 2019, he was named Entrepreneur of the Year for his cafe, Totally Tea + Coffee (formerly Teatotaller), which NH Magazine describes as “a third place and hub of a people’s conspiracy to make New Hampshire an epicenter of joy, art and human liberation.”