Founder, Equipa (consulting firm)

Lydia Bean is the founder of the consulting firm Equipa and co-founder of Whistleblower Aid, a legal nonprofit that helps government employees report lawbreaking, and previously worked as an assistant professor of research at the University of Texas at Arlington¹. She is the Democratic nominee for Tarrant County Clerk, challenging incumbent Mary Louise Nicholson²¹.

• Founder, Equipa (consulting firm); co-founder, Whistleblower Aid; former assistant professor of research at the University of Texas at Arlington¹
• Her campaign site says she holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University, founded a nonprofit in 2014, and helped persuade the Commissioners Court to cancel a private prison contract in February 2024 (the candidate's own account, not independently verified)³
• Not a sitting officeholder. She is the Democratic nominee on the November 3, 2026 ballot, challenging incumbent Mary Louise Nicholson²¹.