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Van Jones

Born in rural Tennessee, Van Jones graduated in 1990 from the University of Tennessee and, in 1993, from Yale Law School. He has worked for economic justice, both as a civil rights attorney and environmental activist, and is known for his bestselling book The Green Collar Economy, published in 2008.

Jones, who has a twin sister, Angela, and was raised in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, developed an early interest in journalism, which led him to intern with two newspapers and the Associated Press before entering law school. After earning his law degree, he moved to California and began his work as an activist.

At the age of twenty-seven, Jones convinced the California State Bar Association to let him provide lawyer referral services for police abuse victims, which led him to found the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. The nonprofit agency works to reform California’s youth prison system, create opportunities in the “green” economy for poor communities and communities of color, and support victims and survivors of police abuse and their f

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A Politics of Compassion: An Interview With Van Jones

This story began with a pitch from my editor (writers love it when editors do the pitching), which was, simply, to have a conversation with Van Jones, the author and CNN commentator who went viral during the 2016 presidential campaign season. In the immediate wake of the election, Jones was among the few to register liberal/progressive angst in real time in mainstream media and to provide, in several notable appearances, lucid instant analysis (coining terms like “whitelash” on the spot) as well as consolation for those traumatized by Donald Trump’s ascendance. In one remarkable performance, delivered in the sleepless hours after the Rust Belt delivered Trump to the White House, he gently coaxed the left back from the ledge. “Take some time to grieve and heal,” he said, in an iPhone-jittery close-up posted on his Facebook page. He spoke extemporaneously—at once empathetic and coolheaded—straight to the left’s forlorn soul. Just when we needed it most, he played the role of comforting

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Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (20 September 1968-) was an American political commentator and activist.

Biography[]

Anthony Kapel Jones was born in Jackson, Tennessee in 1968, and he idolized John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. as a child. After graduating from law school in 1993, he briefly became a radical left and Marxist activist in San Francisco, and, in 1995, he founded the Bay Area Police Watch to combat police brutality. He initially focused on racial injustice, but, by 2005, he also began to advocate for environmental justice and greencapitalism, and he published his first book - The Green Collar Economy - in 2008. In 2009, he became President Barack Obama's Special Advisor for Green Jobs, and he went on to become a prominent progressive news commentator on CNN, co-hosting Crossfire.