# Van Jones

> A lawyer who went from Obama's green jobs advisor to CNN's most unexpectedly emotional election-night commentator, Jones built a career toggling between criminal justice reform, tech equity, and the kind of on-air vulnerability that made him a meme in 2020.

*American environmental advocate and civil rights activist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Lawyer
- **Category:** Lawyers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1968-09-20
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born September 20, 1968, Anthony Kapel Jones came up through civil rights work, founding the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and co-founding Color of Change before the Obama administration tapped him as Special Advisor for Green Jobs in 2009. That stint was brief, but it seeded his next chapter: he wrote "The Green Collar Economy," landed at Princeton as a visiting fellow in 2010, and launched Dream.Org (originally The Dream Corps), a social justice accelerator running initiatives on criminal justice, tech access, and environmental equity. By the mid-2010s he'd moved into media, co-hosting CNN's "Crossfire" revival and later "The Messy Truth," "The Van Jones Show," and "The Redemption Project" - all while racking up three New York Times bestsellers, an Emmy for a VR project, and a WEBBY. He also served as CEO of the REFORM Alliance, the criminal-justice initiative Jay-Z and Meek Mill founded, and spent years advising Prince before the musician's death. The Green jobs dreamer became the guy crying on election night, and somehow both felt true.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 53.4 / 100
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- **Historical depth:** 16.8 / 100
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- **Source confidence:** 95.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #131

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/VanJones68 (@VanJones68)
- **LINKEDIN**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/van-jones-7160bb4b/ (@van-jones-7160bb4b)
- **WEBSITE**: https://vanjones.net/
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/vanjones68/ (@vanjones68)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWYoc1y_8fdT50BXrGy8TNQ (@UCWYoc1y_8fdT50BXrGy8TNQ)
- **FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/vanjones (@vanjones)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4982783/ (@nm4982783)

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