CNN has hired Mondaire Jones as a political commentator. He is a commissioner at the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Jones was a New York congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives and was an attorney at the Westchester County Law Department.
He was an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York.
Jones has a B.A. from Stanford University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
You can connect with Jones on Twitter.