Kira Orange Jones bio

Here's more about Kira from her campaign web site:

 

Kira Orange Jones is a living example of how education can change a life… and that life can change many.

 

Raised in an inner-city neighborhood by her mother, Kira Orange Jones learned early the value of an education.

 

After starting in a low performing public school, Kira watched as her mother worked two jobs to pay for her to have the opportunity to attend parochial school. Although she graduated top of her class in her local parochial school and won a scholarship to the Horace Mann School, not even remedial classes at Mann were enough to fully make up the achievement gap of her early education. She was academically unprepared. Dedicated teachers however, ignited a passion--shared by her mother-- for education.

 

That changed Kira's life. Teachers helped Kira persevere, graduate, and apply —unsuccessfully— to seven colleges. She at last secured admission to Hamilton College and from there was able to transfer to Wesleyan University, graduating in political theory and film studies.

 

She then joined Teach For America because she believed that every child deserved the kinds of opportunities she had received in high school and college. For two years she taught fourth grade at Eden Park Elementary in Baton Rouge…

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Kira Orange Jones bio

http://www.kiraorangejones.com/#!about-kira

 

Kira Orange Jones is a living example of how education can change a life… and that life can change many.

 

Raised in an inner-city neighborhood by her mother, Kira Orange Jones learned early the value of an education.