BIO
Jon Ossoff
Born and raised in Atlanta, Jon Ossoff represents Georgia in the United States Senate.
Jon has established a reputation as a legislative workhorse and a relentless investigator exposing corruption and the abuse of power.
Investigating Corruption
Before his election to the Senate, Jon was an investigative journalist. His small business produced award-winning investigations of corruption and war crimes for international news organizations. Their investigations exposed serious crimes including human trafficking, judicial corruption, bribery, and sexual slavery.
In the Senate, Jon has applied those skills to expose corruption and abuse in government, including the abuse of children in Georgia’s foster care system, mistreatment of military families by private housing contractors, and civil rights abuses in the federal prison system.
Reforming a Broken System
Jon is one of few United States Senators whose campaigns refuse to accept campaign contributions from corporate PACs or federal lobbyists.
Jon has introduced legislation to ban corporate PACs altogether and is leading the charge to ban stock trading by Members of Congress, helping pass a Congressional stock trading ban through a major Senate Committee for the first time.
A Legislative Workhorse
Senator Ossoff has relentlessly delivered for the state of Georgia – fighting to:
- Cap insulin prices for seniors at $35/month
- Lower housing prices
- Expose abuses in Georgia’s foster care system
- Crack down on online exploitation of children
- Strengthen border security
- Upgrade health care for pregnant women, babies, and children
- Expose civil rights abuses and corruption in prisons and jails
- Defend women’s freedom of choice in reproductive health care
- Ban Members of Congress from trading stocks
- Help Georgia farmers and growers export more Georgia-grown products
- Strengthen public safety and tackle the opioid epidemic
- Deliver record funding for Georgia’s HBCUs
- Expand mental health care for veterans
- Expand and help build new health care facilities across the state
- Expand Medicaid in Georgia
- Upgrade infrastructure and expand high-speed internet access statewide
- Hold the U.S. Postal Service accountable for service delays
- Expand job training programs
- Attract thousands of manufacturing jobs to Georgia
- Protect Social Security and Medicare and strengthen Social Security benefits for public servants
Georgia Roots
Jon grew up in Metro Atlanta. He studied diplomacy at Georgetown University and received his Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, Dr. Alisha Kramer, and their daughters Eva and Lila.
Mentored by civil rights icon Congressman John Lewis, civil and human rights have been at the core of Jon’s work throughout his career — whether exposing human trafficking and war crimes as an investigative journalist, or exposing the abuse of foster kids as a United States Senator.
