Why I’m Running
Too often, we’re stuck with a false choice: the inhumanity of Trump or the ineffectiveness of a status quo that isn’t delivering for families. It’s time for a change. We need a new generation of leaders with a track record of getting big things done for everyday people.
I’m running for Congress to help usher in a new generation of leadership focused on getting things done: to fight for a fair economy that will lower costs, and to defeat Trump’s dangerous agenda, which rewards the billionaires at the expense of everyone else.
My path into public service started with addressing one of the fundamental challenges for my generation: the climate crisis. Not just because it was urgent, but because it touched nearly everything else—economic development, job creation, community health, and social justice.
I served in the Biden Administration to push forward ambitious clean energy investments around the world. But when I saw my own hometown devastated by the fires, it became clear that our politicians are falling short—not just on climate, but on the basics.
It’s time for a change. The politics that got us to today cannot effectively chart a path to tomorrow. This moment demands that we face the challenges of affordability and a hostile Trump government that is destabilizing our economy, and making the ultra-rich richer, while hurting everyone else. We need a Congress focused on delivering and driving economic growth – one organized on the principle that solving today’s problems requires more, not less.
An agenda focused on building new capacity holds the promise of lowering the costs of housing, deploying more affordable clean energy, making childcare easier for parents, and organizing our communities to deliver a pathway to citizenship for so many of our hardworking friends and neighbors who serve this community without legal status.
That should start here in California’s 32nd District. This District deserves an energized leader, with a track record of getting big things done, and focused on making LA more affordable.
About jake
I’m Jake Levine: a fourth-generation Angeleno, clean energy advocate, national security professional, and a new dad.
I’ve spent my career fighting to get hard things done.
From suing to stop President Trump’s reckless agenda to serving at the White House National Security Council, I have a deep record of public service in California, and in the federal government.
I’ve worked to enact leading environmental and public health legislation, and during the pandemic, I helped design the California Climate Action Corps, a first-of-its-kind statewide program that puts thousands of young people to work tackling the climate crisis. As an attorney, I represented clean energy advocates taking the Trump Administration to court to defend clean air protections. And I’ve worked hand-in-hand, pragmatically, with the private sector to create jobs, help families save on their electric bills, and deploy clean energy around the world.
I know how to build coalitions to get big things done through persistence, creativity, and fight. And most importantly, I know how to marshal scarce resources, and amplify them through public and private partnership.
For me and thousands of others across LA, this year marked the first time that entire communities lost their homes.
I got to work immediately, helping to launch the fire recovery nonprofit, the Department of Angels. Together with fire survivors and community leaders, we stood up a network of organizers that is presently working to help their communities rebuild and recover.
In March, my wife, Jackie, and I welcomed our first child, Wilder, into the world. That has only intensified my desire to change the things that are broken, and to come together with community to build a better future for everyone.
Jake’s paternal and maternal grandparents
About ca-32
California’s 32nd Congressional District covers communities across the Westside of Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley.
The includes the neighborhoods of Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Encino, Tarzana, Reseda, Winnetka, Canoga Park,Woodland Hills, West Hills, Chatsworth, Northridge, North Hills, the southern portion of Granada Hills, Malibu, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air, Beverly Glen, and the northern portion of Beverly Hills.
