How Representative Jamaal Bowman Will Get It Done

Jamaal Bowman is joining the squad in January. The 44-year-old former middle-school principal has been called a successor to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other grassroots progressives, whose ranks in Congress have been steadily growing. A working-class candidate in New York’s 16th District, Bowman won his primary in a total upset against his well-funded, long-established Democratic opponent, Eliot Engel. He did so without corporate donations and while running on a platform that included Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and free college. Now Bowman is preparing for his new role while living part time in Washington, D.C., and parenting three children — during a pandemic.

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