Jonathan Kelly
Drug Policy Organizer
Organizing & Campaigns

Jonathan Kelly (he/him) is the Drug Policy Organizer for VOCAL-NY. Jon is responsible for empowering, engaging, and cultivating VOCAL-NY’s members who are, or have been, impacted by the War on Drugs (in reality, a war on families, communities, and individuals) in order to prepare them for leadership roles in the fight to end the War on Drugs; and for recruiting and developing New Yorkers who use or have used drugs into VOCAL-NY members through constant contact, political education, mass mobilization, and grassroots organizing efforts in order to build People Power. In addition to their work at VOCAL, they have worked on grassroots, progressive political campaigns as a field organizer and volunteered with local elected Democrats to help with constituent services cases. Other accomplishments include over a dozen publications in various literary journals, an MFA from the New School, two Army Commendation Medals with Combat Devices, and a BS from the United States Military Academy.

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