Doing It On The Side

Today, in honor election day 2016, I have Jon Raj Destin who is single, gay dad, runs a marketing consulting firm, and on the side, he's running for School Board in his town of Albany, California outside San Francisco. Jon and I talked about how his passion for education and advocacy and his business and marketing experience led him to consider running for office, how much he's learned about his community from this experience, how he and his son Sammy campaign together and much more. SHOW NOTES: Find out more about Jon's campaign   Find out more about the town of Albany, CA Jon runs a marketing consultancy, but really considers fatherhood his full-time job. How he has always lived his life "based on passion", what he finds interesting and most wants to do. Jon was born in communist Hungary, escaped as a little boy with his family and grew up as an immigrant to the United States. His early years led him to be passionate about education, starting with teaching as part of Teach for America after col