Kennisandra Jeffries Biography
Kennisandra Jeffries ( Kennisandra Arciniegas-Jeffries) is a social worker at SEIU’s Benefit Fund and one of the celebrity wives in the United known as the wife of U.S. Representative for New York’s 8th Congressional District, Hakeem Jeffries.
How old is Kennisandra Jeffries? – Age
Kennisandra is a private person and has not shared her age and birthday/year. Her age is not known.
Kennisandra Jeffries Family – Parents
She is the daughter in law of Laneda Jeffries, a former social worker, and Marland Jeffries, a former state substance abuse counselor. Her brother in law Hasan Kwame Jeffries is an associate professor of history at the Ohio State University in Columbus. Her husband is the nephew of Leonard Jeffries, a former professor at City College of New York.
Kennisandra Jeffries Husband
She married her husband Hakeem Jeffries, who she met at Beacon in 2018. The two are parents of two sons; Joshua Jeffries in 2004, Jeremiah Jeffries in 2002.
Kennisandra Jeffries Net Worth
Hakeem has an estimated net worth of $841012.
Kennisandra Jeffries’ Career
Jeffries is the son of Ed Jeffries, the former New York City mayor. He is a graduate of the School of Law of New York University and Georgetown University. Jeffries worked for Viacom and CBS as a clerk for a federal judge and an associate litigator. After his death, he was considered a likely heir to James Davis on the NYC Council. During his six years in the state senate, he sponsored over 70 measures, including the Stop-and-Frisk database measure. In January 2012, he declared that he would give up his seat in the Assembly to run for the U.S. 8th congressional seat. He is a member of the society of Kappa Alpha Psi and of the National Association of Minority Contractors chapter of the State of New York.
In 2000, in the Democratic primary, Jeffries challenged incumbent Assemblyman Roger Green but lost by a 52 to 38 percent margin. In 2006, in order to run in New York’s 10th Congressional district, Green agreed to retire from the Assembly. He won re-election for a third term in 2010, easily beating Republican nominee Frank Voyticky. In 2012, Jeffries did not run for re-election and in 2014, he was not re-elected. The first African-American to serve in the U.S. 112th Congress is Raul Jeffries. Representatives’ Home. He was first elected to the 1994 Congress of the United States. Since January 2013, Jeffries has been serving in the House and was inaugurated on January 20, 2013.
The district encompasses Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, East New York, Canarsie, Mill Basin, and Coney Island neighborhoods in Brooklyn. He was adding P.J. Avitto’s Act, which would increase federal support for improved protection in the construction of public housing. He also called for a criminal investigation into the events around Eric Garner’s death and has condemned the chokehold death of Eric Garner. He opposed the Keystone XL pipeline but voted against an amendment that would have capped the pipeline’s oil sales.
Since assuming federal office, Rep. Steve Jeffries has been named ‘a rising star.’ It serves a district with a heavy public housing concentration and high unemployment. Jeffries has three daughters and is married to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. After the Charleston, South Carolina, shootings, he called for the withdrawal of the Confederate battle flag from National Park Service property. In the United States, he sponsored the Prison Ship Martyrs’ Memorial Restoration Act. In April 2013, the House of Representatives. He states he supports prohibiting discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.
The district encompasses Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bed-Stuy, Brownsville, East New York, Canarsie, Mill Basin, and Coney Island neighborhoods in Brooklyn. He did add the P.J. Avitto Act, which will increase government support for improved protection in improvements in public housing. He called for a criminal investigation into the events around Eric Garner’s suicide and criticized the chokehold death of Eric Garner. He criticized the Keystone XL pipeline but voted against an amendment that would regulate the pipeline’s sales of crude. He also asked why, under Mayor Bloomberg’s replacement, Mayor Bill de Blasio, low-level marijuana arrests were still increasing in New York City.