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Jamaal Bowman was raised in NYC public housing by his grandmother and mother. Ten years ago, Jamaal founded a public middle school in the Bronx, the Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, where he served as the principal until the end of 2019. He built this school based on the principles of equity and restorative justice and working to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline. He will bring this experience and his beliefs to his work in Congress to dramatically improve historically oppressed communities nationwide.
Mondaire Jones is an attorney, nonprofit leader, and activist. He was born to a young, single mother and was raised in the district he’s running to serve. In his senior year at Stanford, when the Palo Alto Police Chief made public statements endorsing racial profiling, Mondaire organized his fellow students. Their efforts helped lead to the police chief’s resignation and reforms within the department.
NY-16, NY-17 and, frankly, every Congressional district in America deserves a Democrat who will fight for everyone, a leader with an inclusive progressive vision for change. Jamaal and Mondaire are fighting for a Green New Deal, free public college, Medicare for All, lifting up union families, progressive foreign policy, ending mass incarceration and deportation, and fully investing in our public schools. Both of them are refusing all corporate PAC and lobbyist contributions.
When it comes to supporting the Movement for Black Lives, one absolutely critical step is to elect black leaders.
Stay safe, stay healthy, and keep fighting for change.
— Charles
Charles Chamberlain
Chair, Democracy for America
