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Throughout Senator Booker’s career, he hasn’t run away from big problems; he’s run towards them. From leading legal clinics in New Haven, Connecticut as a law student to taking on one of the most powerful and entrenched political machines in New Jersey, Booker has built a record of bringing people together around tough challenges and delivering results that improved people’s lives. Sweeping into political office as Mayor of Newark, NJ in 2006, Booker has worked tirelessly to improve the lives of Newark’s citizens, and after decades of neglect, mismanagement and decay, Newark has started a turnaround. Newark today is in the midst of its biggest period of economic growth since the 1960s, and is is the site of more than one-third of all new commercial and multi-family development in New Jersey, despite being home to only 3 percent of the state’s population. Booker and his team have driven change in all areas of the city, including more than doubling of the rate of affordable housing production, creating the city’s largest expansion of parks and recreation spaces in over a century, and driving first-of-their-kind innovations in New Jersey in grassroots economic empowerment, programs to support grandparents raising their grandchildren and innovations and efforts to combat and reduce childhood obesity.

Booker was born in Washington D.C. and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford, where he played for the Stanford football team. He also ran a crisis hotline for students and worked with disadvantaged youth in East Palo Alto. Booker then attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar where he ran a student tutoring and mentoring program in a disadvantaged community and served as president of the Oxford L’Chaim Society. Booker earned his juris doctor from Yale Law School, where he helped lead free legal clinics for New Haven residents. After moving to Newark, Booker lived for eight years in Brick Towers, a public housing complex. He now lives in Newark’s South Ward community.

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