John-Michael Parker is an American politician serving as a member of the

Connecticut House of Representatives The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature (United States), state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The house is composed of 151 members representing an ...

from 101st district. Elected in November 2020, he assumed office on January 1, 2021.

Early life and education

Parker was born in

Madison, Connecticut Madison is a town in the southeastern corner of New Haven County, Connecticut, United States, occupying a central location on Connecticut's Long Island Sound shoreline. The population was 17,691 at the 2020 census. Madison was first settled in 16 ...

and graduated from

Daniel Hand High School Daniel Hand High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school in Madison, Connecticut, United States. It serves grades 9 through 12 and is the only high school in Madison Public Schools. History Businessman Daniel Hand, a native of Mad ...

. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 2010.

Career

After graduating from Yale, Parker worked as a science teacher at the

Dalton School The Dalton School, originally the Children's University School, is a private, coeducational college preparatory school in New York City and a member of both the Ivy Preparatory School League and the New York Interschool. The school is located in ...

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

. He then joined The Future Project, a

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-based non-profit, as the organization's national dream director and later VP for development. Since 2019, he has worked as the executive director of Arts for Learning Connecticut. Parker ran for the State House in the 101st district in 2018, however he was defeated by incumbent

Noreen Kokoruda Noreen Kokoruda (August 4, 1947 – December 21, 2022) was an American politician who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the ...

by 18 votes. He was elected to the

in November 2020, defeating Kokoruda, and assumed office on January 1, 2021.

Electoral history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Parker, John-Michael Living people People from Madison, Connecticut Yale University alumni Democratic Party members of the Connecticut House of Representatives Year of birth missing (living people)