The Kennedy Political Union is proud to present Van Jones in the University Club on Wednesday, September 15th.
Van Jones is a pioneer in human rights and the clean energy economy and the best-selling author of, The Green-Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Solve Our Two Biggest Problems. Most recently, Jones served as the Special Adviser for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation for the White House Council on Environmental Quality until September 2009.
The founder of three successful nonprofit organizations, Jones is a constant innovator in the quest to create a sustainable, environmentally beneficial economy. He co-founded a national coalition that promotes the idea of a national “Clean Energy Jobs Corps,” a federal initiative that would put hundreds of thousands of people to work improving the American energy infrastructure. At the political level, Jones worked successfully to get the Green Jobs Act of 2007 passed, which authorized $125 million to train 35,000 people a year in “green-collar jobs.”
A 1993 Yale Law graduate, he was recognized as one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People” in 2009.
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