Jackie Gordon is a combat veteran, an educator, a public servant, and a community leader. Jackie was born in Jamaica, West Indies, and grew up in Queens, NY. While in college and teaching in local schools, she enlisted in the United States Army Reserve, she served in desert storm, Iraq and Afghanistan, and after a long and impressive 29-year career, she retired from the Army Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 2014.

Jackie went on to spend three decades working in New York public schools, and has earned degrees in education from Hunter College and Queens College. From 2007 to 2020, she served on the Babylon Town Council, where she worked to direct resources to veterans and military families as Chair of the Veterans Advisory Council, she pushed for the revitalization of Wyandanch Village, which has breathed new life into the community, and helped raise nearly $1 million for the Wounded Warriors Project through the annual Soldier Ride in Babylon.

Today she is running for Congress in NY’s 2nd Congressional District on a platform promising to help her community overcome effects of covid-19, bring down the costs of healthcare and prescription drugs, invest in public education, veterans and their families, advocate for sensible gun reform, and more.