Cory Booker

Cory Booker is a U.S. Senator from New Jersey, a former Democratic Presidential candidate, a former mayor of Newark, an attorney, and a lifelong fighter for civil rights. He began his political career in 1998 when he was elected to the Municipal Council of Newark, after launching a nonprofit organization to provide legal help to low-income families and tenants. In 2006, he was elected mayor of Newark, where he served until 2013, when he moved on to the U.S. Senate. Cory is the first Black U.S. Senator from New Jersey and has been consistently advocating for racial and economic justice since, proposing and passing legislation to reform the criminal justice system, end mass incarceration, reduce wealth inequality, combat climate change, and promote equitable access to healthy food and affordable health care. And Cory has made compassion the cornerstone of all of this work. In 2016, he published a book called "United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good." When he was a Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential race, he campaigned on love: “We are at our best when we give the ultimate sacrifice of putting other people, putting the country, putting our communities ahead of ourselves,” he said. “If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.”