To Jordan Wright, the time to engage young voters is now

Assembly Member Jordan Wright, son of Manhattan Democratic Party boss Keith Wright, wants to build political power for young people.

At age 29, he was elected to represent Harlem, succeeding longtime Assembly Member Inez Dickens in Assembly District 70 last year. Politics was nothing new to Wright. He’d grown up surrounded by Harlem’s powerful Black political leaders, watching his father’s own political legacy unfold as well as that of other members of Harlem’s old guard and heard stories of his grandfather state Supreme Court Justice Bruce Wright’s efforts to make the judicial system more just. And in 2023, Wright managed the campaign of Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam, successfully helping him get elected to the City Council and then becoming his chief of staff.

Now, capping off his first year as an elected official himself, Wright is looking beyond Albany, hoping to use his youth and political acuity to engage young New Yorkers. City & State caught up with Wright to discuss his first year as a lawmaker, his vision for Manhattan Young Democrats as the political club’s incoming president and why he initially endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary over Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.


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