Cory Booker
US Senator, (D-NJ)
Cory Booker is a US senator representing New Jersey. He won a special election in October 2013 to complete the term of the late senator Frank Lautenberg and was reelected in 2014. He previously was elected to two terms as mayor of Newark, beginning in 2006, and served on the Newark City Council before that. Booker serves on the Senate’s committees on the Judiciary, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Environment and Public Works, and Foreign Relations. A creative problem solver who seeks bipartisan solutions, he has worked on difficult issues including reforming the criminal justice system, expanding economic opportunity for New Jerseyans, and improving the nation’s infrastructure.
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A conversation with Ava DuVernay and Ai-jen Poo (Moderator: Samhita Mukhopadhyay) A conversation with Atul Gawande and Lucy Kalanithi A conversation with Cory Booker (...
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