|
Anthony Kapel "Van" Jones (born September 20, 1968) is an American environmental advocate, civil rights activist, and attorney. He is a co-founder of four non-profit organizations including Rebuild the Dream, of which he is president. In 1996, he founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a California non-governmental organization (NGO) working for alternatives to violence. In 2005, he co-founded Color of Change, an advocacy group for African Americans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Color of Change ">url=http://colorofchange.org/about.html )〕 In 2007, he founded Green for All, a national NGO dedicated to "building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty."〔(【引用サイトリンク】Green for All ">url=http://www.greenforall.org/about-us )〕 In 2011, he founded Rebuild the Dream, a national advocacy organization working towards a fairer economy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://rebuildthedream.com/about/ )〕 His first book, ''The Green Collar Economy'', was released on October 7, 2008. It won the Nautilus Book Award and reached number 12 on the ''New York Times'' Best Seller list. In 2008, ''Time'' magazine named Jones one of its "Heroes of the Environment". ''Fast Company'' called him one of the "12 Most Creative Minds of 2008". In March 2009, Jones was appointed by President Barack Obama to the newly created position of Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, where he worked with various "agencies and departments to advance the administration's climate and energy initiatives, with a special focus on improving vulnerable communities." In July 2009 he became embroiled in a controversy over his past political activities, including a public comment disparaging congressional Republicans, his name appearing on a petition for 911Truth.org, and one-time involvement with a socialist collective during the 1990s.〔 For these issues, Van Jones was heavily criticized by conservatives. Jones resigned from the position in early September 2009.〔 "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in his resignation statement. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."〔 Jones is currently a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and a senior policy advisor at Green for All. Jones also holds a joint appointment at Princeton University, as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. == Early life == Jones and his twin sister Angela were born in 1968 in Jackson, Tennessee. Their mother was a teacher at a high school and their father was a principal at a junior high school. Jones' sister said that as a child he was "the stereotypical geek—he just kind of lived up in his head a lot." He has described his own childhood behavior as "bookish and bizarre."〔 His grandfather was the senior bishop in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, and Jones sometimes accompanied his grandfather to religious conferences, where he would sit all day listening to the adults "in these hot, sweaty black churches".〔 Jones was a young fan of John and Bobby Kennedy, and would pin photographs of them to a bulletin board in his room in the specially delineated "Kennedy Section". As a child he paired his Star Wars action figures with Kennedy-era political figures; Luke Skywalker was John, Han Solo was Bobby, and Lando Calrissian was Martin Luther King, Jr. He graduated from Jackson Central-Merry High School in 1986. Jones received his B.S. in communication and political science from the University of Tennessee at Martin (UT Martin). Jones worked as an intern at the ''Jackson Sun'' (Tennessee), the ''Shreveport Times'' (Louisiana) and the Associated Press (Nashville bureau). He also helped to launch and spearhead a number of independent, campus-based publishing efforts. These publications 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 credits UT Martin for preparing him for life on a global stage: After graduating from UT Martin, Jones left his home state to attend Yale Law School. In 1993, Jones earned his Juris Doctor and moved to San Francisco. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Van Jones」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|