Jeff Jones

Jeff Jones

Board Member, Capital Region

Jeff Jones is a political strategist, environmental lobbyist and media expert based in Albany, New York. His company, Jeff Jones Strategies, works with and advises environmental justice, conservation, and labor groups. Jones’s work concentrates on creating good green jobs through the emerging clean energy economy, community revitalization and local and farmland preservation, protection of New York’s ocean resources, and healthy schools.

A long-time political activist and former reporter, Jones has been recognized by Metroland Magazine as one of the ten most-significant Capital Region journalists of the past 30 years. He is a frequent contributor to the Albany Times Union GREEN BLOG. He serves on the boards of the West Harlem-based WeAct for Environmental Justice and John Brown Lives!.