Van Jones Biography
Van Jones, whose real name is Anthony Kapel Jones is an Emmy Award-winning news commentator, writer, and lawyer from the United States of America working as the CNN political commentator, regularly appearing across the network’s programming and special political coverage.
How old is Van Jones? – Age
The CNN political commentator is 53 years old as of September 20, 2021. He was born in 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee, United States.
Van Jones Family – Who are Van Jones’s parents? – Children
Anthony is the son of Loretta Jean (née Kirkendoll), a high school teacher, and Willie Anthony Jones, a middle school principal. He has a twin sister Angela Jones. He is from a Christian family with his grandfather being a leader in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
Is Van Jones still married? – Is Van Jones married to Amy Carter? – Wife
Jones is a divorced man. He was married to Jana Carter Jones from 2005 to 2019. The couple has two children; Cabral Jones born in 2005 and Mattai Jones born in 2009. Jana filed for divorce on September 7, 2018, and sought mutual legal and physical custody of their two children as well as spousal care. They later divorced in 2019.
Van Jones Career (CNN)
In 2009, Jones was the Special Assistant for Green Jobs to President Barack Obama and a distinguished visiting fellow at Princeton University. Several non-profit groups, including the Ella Baker Centre for Human Rights, Color of Transformation, and the Dream Corps, were founded or co-founded by him. The Dream Corps is an accelerator in social change that runs three campaigns for advocacy: #cut50, #YesWeCode, and Green for All.
He hosted The Van Jones Show on CNN, The Salvation Mission, and with Van Jones, The Messy Facts. Jones is also the co-creator of The Chaotic Truth VR Experience, the Emmy Award-winning augmented reality series. The CEO of Change Alliance, which was launched in January 2019, is Jones. The REFORM Alliance’s mission is to drastically decrease, beginning with probation and parole, the number of individuals who are unjustly under the jurisdiction of the criminal justice system. REFORM is endorsed by a bi-partisan and diverse coalition of sports, culture and industry figures, including award-winning recording artist Meek Mill; Michael Rubin, co-owner of Philadelphia 76ers and executive chairman of Fanatics; Shawn ‘JAY-Z’ Carter, billionaire and business mogul; Robert Kraft, owner of the Kraft Group and New England Patriots; Clara Wu, co-owner and philanthropic investor of Brooklyn Nets
For more than 25 years, Jones has been a voice in the struggle for the improvement of criminal justice. He has founded and led several prosperous social enterprises, including the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, and the Dream Corps, an engine of social justice that houses #YesWeCode, #GreenForAll, and #cut50, which recently led to the FIRST Move Act being passed in a bipartisan Federal bill that The New York Times calls ‘the most substantial breakthrough in criminal justice in a generation’.
Jones is a Yale-educated lawyer and author of three best-selling books in the New York Times, Beyond the Chaotic Facts in 2017, The Green Collar Economy in 2008, and Restore the Dreamin 2012, on his way to becoming a White House policy analyst as an environmental and human rights activist. He was the first Green Employment Act supporter. By George W. Signed into Law. In 2007, Bush’s Green Jobs Act was the first piece of federal legislation to codify the word ‘green jobs.’ The legislation resulted in $500 million in national support for green job programs under the Obama Presidency.
Jones served as President Barack Obama’s Green Employment adviser in 2009. In this role, he helped lead the inter-agency mechanism that oversaw the multi-billion-dollar investment in the environment and renewable energy industries in skills training and career creation. ‘Young Global Leader’Young Global Leader’12 Leaders Who Get Things Done’12 Leaders Who Get Things Done’100 Most Influential People in The World’100 Most Influential People in the world’s Root 100.’The Root 100.
Van Jones Net Worth – Salary
His salary is still not revealed. He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.