Meet The Bronx Middle School Principal Challenging A 16-Term Congressional Incumbent
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning victory over Congressmember Joe Crowley in June 2018 has helped inspire numerous challenges to established incumbents, from state senate candidates like Alessandra Biaggi and Julia Salazar to Tiffany Cabán’s narrow defeat in this year’s Queens DA primary. Now, another unlikely candidate is hoping to join AOC in Washington by mounting his own challenge to a longtime Democratic insider. Jamaal Bowman, a middle-school principal and education reform activist, i…