1. Sean Eldridge was born on July 31,1986 and is a Canadian-born American political activist from New York.
14 Facts About Sean Eldridge
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Sean Eldridge previously served as political director of Freedom to Marry, an organization advocating for the legalization of same-sex marriage.
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Sean Eldridge ran for Congress in New York's 19th congressional district in 2014, but was defeated.
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Sean Eldridge is the spouse of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.
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Sean Eldridge grew up in the suburbs of Toledo, Ohio, and attended public school in Ottawa Hills, a suburb of Toledo.
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Sean Eldridge's mother was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to Jewish refugee parents, and his father converted to Judaism.
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Sean Eldridge studied at Deep Springs College in Deep Springs, California, and graduated with a degree in philosophy from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he helped organize the national Students for Barack Obama campaign in 2007.
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Sean Eldridge enrolled at Columbia Law School in New York City but withdrew to join Freedom to Marry.
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Sean Eldridge served initially as communications director and then as political director, a role in which he helped lead the successful 2011 effort to legalize same-sex marriage in New York.
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Sean Eldridge founded the Hudson Valley Advanced Manufacturing Center at SUNY New Paltz in 2013, which trains students and workers on the use of 3-D printing technology.
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Since 2011, Sean Eldridge has served on the board of directors of Scenic Hudson, "the largest environmental group focused on the Hudson Valley", and is a significant supporter of their climate change and waterfront protection programs.
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In 2012, Sean Eldridge launched Protect Our Democracy PAC and New York Leadership for Accountable Government, a bipartisan group of business and civic leaders advocating for campaign finance reform in New York State.
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Sean Eldridge supported abortion rights and immigration reform, opposed hydrofracking, and supported a minimum wage hike.
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Sean Eldridge married Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes on June 30,2012.