Van Jones via kwout
Yes. Van Jones, a former special adviser to President Obama for green jobs is married to Jana (Jane Michelle Carter), an employment lawyer and a Berkley grad. The couple have two children Cabral and Mattai.
According to Therightperspective.org, Jones name his oldest son after after Marxist and Black Nationalist revolutionary Amílcar Lopes Cabral, who led African nationalist movements in Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands, and led Guinea-Bissau’s independence movement.
Van Jones is a CNN political contributor, regularly appearing across the network’s programming and special political coverage.
He has been honored with numerous awards and spotlighted on several lists of high achievers, including: the World Economic Forum’s “Young Global Leader” designation; Rolling Stone’s 2012 “12 Leaders Who Get Things Done”; TIME’s 2009 “100 Most Influential People in The World”; and the Root's 2014 "The Root 100." He is presently a fellow at the MIT Media Lab.
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