Barbara Lee + Jamaal Bowman

‘You can’t start in the middle when you’re trying to pass a policy. You have to be thinking strategically about where you want to go to make systemic change.’
—Barbara Lee

HEN JAMAAL BOWMAN WON HIS June primary to represent parts of the Bronx and Westchester County in Congress, he became the latest young progressive whose election shook up Washington, D.C. But that new wave—whose most prominent member is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—is following in the footsteps of many elder leaders. Longtime Representative Barbara