 Berkman was the first Greens member to be elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.Berkman won the new seat after the Indooroopilly and Mt Coot-tha electorates were abolished at the 2017 state election to make way for the new seat of Maiwar, which had a notional LNP margin of 3%, defeating incumbent Indooroopilly LNP MP Scott Emerson.Berkman was born in Brisbane, Queensland.