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Van Jones Biography

Van Jones is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on September 20, 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee, United States. African American author known for his New York Times bestselling book, The Green Collar Economy. He was featured as a 2009 Time magazine list of the 100 Most influential people. As an attorney He is well-known for his civil rights and environmental activism.

He was appointed Special Advisor on Green Jobs by President He was appointed Special Adviser for Green Jobs by President Barack Obama..

Anthony Kapel Jones and his twin sister Angela were born in 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee, about 90 miles east of Memphis. Their mother, Loretta Jean (née Kirkendoll), was a high school teacher, and their father, Willie Anthony Jones, was a principal at a middle school. Jones’ sister said that as a child, Anthony was “the stereotypical geek—he just kind of lived up in his head a lot”. Jones has said as a child he was “bookish and bizarre”. His grandfather was a leader in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and Jones sometimes accompanied him to religious conferences. He would sit all day listening to the adults “in these hot, sweaty black churches”.

Anthony Kapel “Van” Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American news commentator, author, and non-practicing attorney. He is a co-founder of several nonprofit organizations, including the Dream Corps, a “social justice accelerator” that operates three advocacy initiatives: #cut50, #Yeswecode and Green for All. He is the author of The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream, both ranking as New York Times bestselling books. He is a regular CNN contributor and host of The Van Jones Show.

He as well as his twin sister, Angela was born in Jackson, Tennessee to a teacher’s mother and a principal father. Later, he had two sons , named Cabral and Mattai along with his wife, Jana Carter.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Jones’ appointment was criticized by conservative media such as WorldNetDaily and Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, who mentioned Jones on fourteen episodes of his show. They criticized Jones for his radical political activities in the 1990s, including participation in STORM and his public support for Mumia Abu-Jamal, a prisoner convicted and sentenced to death, in a highly controversial trial, for murdering a police officer.

Van Jones Net Worth

Van Jones is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Van Jones's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a student of political science in Martin University. University of Tennessee at Martin and then completed his studies at Yale Law School. Between law school and college He was a part-time an intern in Nashville, the Nashville office of Associated Press.

He was the Special Adviser to Green Jobs in the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

The first wave is sort of the Teddy Roosevelt, conservation era which had its day and then, in 1963, Rachel Carson writes a book, Silent Spring, and she’s talking about toxics and the environment, and that really kind of opens up a whole new wave. So it’s no longer just conservation but it’s conservation, plus regulation, trying to regulate the bad, and that wave kind of continued to be developed and got kind of a 2.5 upgrade because of the environmental justice community who said, “Wait a minute, you’re regulating but you’re not regulating equally, the white polluters and white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities, because they don’t have a racial justice frame.”… Now there’s something new that’s beginning to gather momentum, and it’s conservation plus regulation of the bad, plus investment in the good … beginning to put money into the solutions as well as trying to regulate the problem.

Jones was affiliated with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, which had brought him to the city as a legal observer in 1992. In 1995, Jones initiated their project of Bay Area PoliceWatch, the region’s only bar-certified hotline and lawyer-referral service for victims of police abuse. The hotline started receiving fifteen calls a day.

Deciding against journalism, Jones moved to Connecticut to attend Yale Law School. In 1992, while still a law student at Yale, he was among several law students selected by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, based in San Francisco, to serve as legal observers in the trial of four officers charged with attacking Rodney King. King had been beaten by police officers in an incident caught on camera. Three of the officers were acquitted and the jury deadlocked on the verdict of the fourth man. Jones participated with many others in protesting the verdicts. He and others were arrested, but the district attorney later dropped the charges against Jones.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Jones graduated from Jackson Central-Merry High School, a public high school in his hometown, in 1986. He received his B.S. in communication and political science from the University of Tennessee at Martin (UT Martin). During this period, Jones also worked as an intern at the Jackson Sun (Tennessee), the Shreveport Times (Louisiana), and the Associated Press (Nashville bureau). He adopted the nickname “Van” when he was 17 and working at the Jackson Sun. At UT Martin, Jones helped to launch and lead a number of independent, campus-based publications. They included the Fourteenth Circle (University of Tennessee), the Periscope (Vanderbilt University), the New Alliance Project (statewide in Tennessee), and the Third Eye (Nashville’s African-American community). Jones later credited UT Martin for preparing him for a larger life.

In 1996–1997, Jones and PoliceWatch led a campaign to gain the firing of officer Marc Andaya from the San Francisco Police Department. Andaya was accused of excessive force in the in-custody death in 1995 of Aaron Williams, an unarmed black man who fought on the street with several officers. There was community outrage about his death and pressure on the department to bring justice against Andaya, who witnesses saw kick Williams in the head. In the year after the incident, the press reported that Andaya had a record of incidents of misconduct in the 1980s. The San Francisco Chronicle reported in addition that Andaya was named in 10 complaints between 1983 and 1993, eight of them allegedly for misuse of physical force, when he was a policeman with the Oakland Police Department. Investigation revealed more brutality complaints in Oakland and two lawsuits against him; the San Francisco Police Commission voted to fire Andaya in June 1997 for falsifying his application to the department.

Who is Van Jones Dating?

According to our records, Van Jones married to Jana Carter . As of December 1, 2023, Van Jones’s is not dating anyone.

After graduating from law school with his J.D. degree in 1993, Jones moved to San Francisco, and according to his own words, “trying to be a revolutionary”. He became affiliated with many radical left activists, and co-founded a socialist collective called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM). It protested against police brutality, held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin, and aspired to a multi-racial socialist utopia.

Facts & Trivia

Van Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Van Jones celebrates birthday on September 20 of every year.

By 1996, Jones founded a new umbrella NGO, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. He operated out of “a closet-like office” within the space of Eva Paterson, Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee, and used his personal computer.

Who is Van Jones twin?

Anthony Kapel Jones and his twin sister Angela were born in Jackson, Tennessee, on September 20, 1968, to high school teacher Loretta Jean (née Kirkendoll) and middle school principal Willie Anthony Jones.

How much does Van Jones make a year?

Where did Van Jones go to college?

College

How old is Van Jones?

53 years (September 20, 1968)

Who is Van Jones Babymama?

Jones has two sons that he shares with his ex-wife, Jana Carter, the niece of former president Jimmy Carter, who he was with for more than 14 years. TMZ, quoting sources named the baby’s mother, but The Daily Beast was unable to confirm that. Jones did not immediately respond to an inquiry from The Daily Beast.

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