Hi, I’m Jared.

For over two decades, I have dedicated my life to making real climate and clean energy progress and to building a more equitable and sustainable economy.

Family

First and foremost, I come from and am committed to the working class of Vermont. For most of my childhood, my mother Alice worked as a waitress and my father Bill as a chef. My desire to serve my fellow Vermonters is grounded in the experiences of my family, including having my father survive multiple heart attacks only to weather bankruptcy and housing insecurity caused by medical debt.

I know what it means to face economic hardship and I will be a champion for working Vermonters. 

Roots in Central Vermont

My family, including my wife, Rev. Joan Javier-Duval, and our son, settled in Montpelier in 2014. I am part of the ninth-generation of my family to live in Vermont, which includes deep roots in Central Vermont. Some of my ancestors immigrated to Montpelier from Ireland in the early 1800s, including my 4th great grandfather, James McGlaflin, who was a stone mason who worked some of the granite that makes up the Vermont State House. It would be one of the honors of my life to be entrusted with responsibility to craft policy on behalf of working Vermonters, working in the same Statehouse that he helped build as a laborer. 

I have a strong love for our state and am committed to serving all Vermonters. For me, politics matters because policy matters – and policy matters because people matter. I believe that the best policy is made when guided by science, reason, and empathy while working with civility, humility, and collaboration. I am also an avid outdoors person who enjoys hiking, fishing, and hunting. 

Public Service

From 2014 - 2017 I served as Economic Development Director at the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development, providing support to working lands and green economy businesses and workers across Vermont. For the last five years I have served as Executive Director of the Energy Action Network and helped to lead Vermont’s response to the climate crisis, including working for an equitable transition to cleaner and more affordable energy. I am a member of the Vermont Climate Council and a co-author of Vermont’s Climate Action Plan. I have also served on the Boards of Vermont’s Clean Energy Development Fund and the Public Assets Institute, whose mission includes improving the well-being of all Vermonters by conducting research and analysis related to the state budget and fiscal policy.

Earlier in my career, I served as an intern for then-Congressman Bernie Sanders (2002), as the youngest member of the policy team for Governor Howard Dean’s presidential campaign (2003), as National Director of the Sierra Student Coalition (2005-2007), the national student chapter of the Sierra Club and then the largest student-led environmental organization in America, and as the Creative Economy fellow at the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development (2013), where I recorded and produced a series of video profiles of Vermont creatives. 

Education and Writing

To become the most effective policy maker I could be for Vermont, I earned my Master’s degree in public affairs from Princeton, with a concentration in domestic policy (2014). My book Next Generation Democracy was published in 2010. I’ve also authored articles and commentaries for publications including Orion Magazine and the Times Argus.

I graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in Economics and Political Science from Wheaton College in Massachusetts (2005). I would not have been able to attend college were it not for the support of my parents — neither of whom were college graduates themselves — and need-based state and federal grant and loan programs. During college and over the summers I also worked multiple jobs to be able to afford tuition and room and board.

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