Biography

Andrew Yang (born January 13, 1975) is a renowned and celebrated American businessman, lawyer, lobbyist, politician, and political contender.

He is well known for running in the Democratic Party‘s presidential primary for 2020 and the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City in 2021. Together with former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, he is now Forward’s co-chair. 

Andrew Yang, a New York State native and the son of Taiwanese immigrants, was born and reared there. He attended both Christine Todd Whitman and Brown University. In the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Yang rose to prominence. 

His flagship policy regarding automation-related job loss was a universal basic income (UBI) of US$1,000 per month. Through his advocacy and campaign, Yang has been credited with popularizing the concept of universal basic income. 

Andrew Yang, who rose from relative obscurity to become a serious contender in the campaign, was dubbed by news organizations as the most unexpected candidate of the 2020 election season. He met the requirements to attend and participated in seven of the first eight Democratic debates. His fans, collectively referred to as the Yang Gang included several well-known celebrities. 

On February 11, 2020, just after the New Hampshire primary, Andrew Yang called his campaign to an end. Yang announced the founding of the political nonprofit group Humanity Forward after his campaign was over, joined CNN as a political analyst and entered the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary.

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Soon after the initial ranked-choice results, in which he finished fourth, he announced his defeat in the contest. Andrew Yang announced on October 4, 2021, that he was quitting the Democratic Party and going independent. He criticized the system for being stuck in increasing polarization and claimed he is “more at ease trying to fix the system than being a part of it.” 

Andrew Yang established the Forward Party on October 5. This political action committee aims to create a political party that will reduce polarization and reforms the political and economic structures of the United States. The Serve America Movement and the Renew America Movement amalgamated into the Forward Party. Christine Todd Whitman, a former governor of New Jersey, and Andrew Yang are presently the party’s co-chairs.

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Wiki Facts & About Data
Full Name:	Andrew Yang
Stage Name:	Yang Gang
Born:	13 January 1975 (age 49 years old)
Place of Birth:	Schenectady, New York, United States
Nationality:	American
Height:	1.77 m
Parents:	Kei Hsiung Yang, Nancy Yang
Siblings:	Lawrence Yang
Wife • Spouse:	Evelyn Yang (m. 2011)
Girlfriend • Partner:	N/A
Children:	Christopher Yang
Occupation:	Lawyer • Politician
Net Worth:	US$3 million-US$4 million

Early Life & Education

Andrew Yang was born in Schenectady, New York, United States, on January 13, 1975. He was born to Kei Hsiung Yang and Nancy Yang. 

His parents met while attending graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 1960s, when they immigrated from Taiwan to the United States. He is of Taiwanese Hoklo ancestry. 

His father, Kei Hsiung Yang, earned a PhD in physics, worked in the research departments of General Electric and IBM and produced more than 50 patents throughout his professional career. 

His mother, Nancy Yang, earned a master’s degree in statistics before working as an academic institution’s systems administrator and later as an artist. Lawrence Yang, a New York University psychology professor, is Andrew Yang‘s older brother. 

Andrew Yang was raised in Somers, New York, a town in Westchester County. He has talked of being taunted and subjected to racial epithets by classmates while he was a student.

He enrolled at Brown University after earning his diploma from Exeter in 1992 and majored in economics and political science there, receiving his degree in 1996. Later, he went to Columbia Law School, where he graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1999. 

After earning his law degree, he started his work as a business attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. Later, Andrew Yang compared the position to a pie-eating contest, with extra pie as the prize if you won. After five months, which he has referred to as the five worst months of my life, he quit the legal practice. 

Andrew Yang and Jonathan Phillips, a coworker, launched Stargiving in February 2000 as a website for celebrity-affiliated charitable fundraising. He started working on developing a new nonprofit fellowship program, Venture for America (VFA), which he created in 2011 after Kaplan bought Manhattan Prep in late 2009. 

The group’s goal was to identify and prepare business-starting entrepreneurs in urban areas experiencing economic hardship. With a US$200,000 startup budget, VFA trained 40 graduates in 2012 and 69 in 2013. With a class size of 106, VFA welcomed Columbus, Miami, San Antonio, and St. Louis in 2014. 

At the 2015 Techonomy Conference, Andrew Yang discusses urban entrepreneurship in Detroit, Michigan. VFA garnered widespread media coverage, even from the Barack Obama administration. He was awarded in 2011 by the White House initiative Champions of Change, which celebrated 500 individuals from every state for outstanding contributions to their communities. 

Andrew Yang received the designation of Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship in 2015. VFA has additionally come under fire for falling far short of its target of 100,000 jobs. According to an ABC News investigation, VFA’s figure of employment generated as of 2020 only included 365, and The New York Times discovered that just 150 of those jobs were still in existence. 

In 2016, Cynthia Wade and Cheryl Miller Houser co-directed the documentary Startup, which is about six Detroit entrepreneurs that VFA supported. 

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Personal Life

Since Andrew Yang‘s marriage to Evelyn Yang, in 2011, Andrew Yang and Evelyn Yang have been parents to two kids. One of them is named Christopher Yang, an autistic patient.

The Yang family owns a house in New Paltz, New York, which they bought in 2015, in addition to a rented unit in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. During the early COVID-19 epidemic, this became the family’s main house and the subject of debate during Andrew Yang‘s mayoral race. 

Andrew Yang stated on his tax return for 2019 that he rented this house out to friends or through Airbnb for 58 days. Andrew Yang has named Mark Mast as the pastor of the Reformed Church of New Paltz, which is close to his residence.

Net Worth

The media have estimated Andrew Yang‘s accumulated net worth to be between US$3 million to US$4 million, between US$834,000 and US$2.4 million by The Wall Street Journal and US$1 million by Forbes.

Social Media

• Instagram: @andrewyang
• Twitter: @andrewyang