Van Jones

Van has served as President Barack Obama’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs and as a co-host of CNN’s political debate show Crossfire. He is a co-founder of Dream Corps, a "social justice accelerator" with the following initiatives: #YesWeCode, committed to helping train 100,000 low-opportunity youth to become top-level computer programmers and #cut50, which is working to cut the U.S. prison population in half in the next 10 years. In addition, the Yale-educated attorney has authored two New York Times best-selling books, The Green Collar Economy (2008) and Rebuild the Dream (2012). The second book chronicles his journey as an environmental and human rights activist to becoming a White House policy advisor.