Mondaire Jones

Educational Background
• Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Stanford University (2009)
• Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School

Career
• Elected member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s 17th District (2021-2023) and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an agency that investigates and reports on civil rights issues (2023)
• Worked in the U.S. Department of Justice during Barack Obama’s presidency; later worked as a law clerk for a private law firm, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Westchester County Law Department
• Supports protecting reproductive rights, lowering prescription drug costs, protecting social security, gun-control legislation, and securing the border; does not support the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Personal Information
• One of the two first openly gay black members of Congress
• Member of the First Baptist Church of Spring Valley
• Raised in Spring Valley, New York by his single mother who worked multiple jobs to support him and his grandparents