Jonathan S. Bedi

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Jonathan Singh Bedi is a candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party primary election for the 5th District of the Illinois Senate.

Public service

Bedi was previously a board member of Urban Synergy, an organization that "brings together community organizations, schools and businesses to create unique learning opportunities for disadvantaged minority students in the District" Bedi is also a member of the National Organization for Women. He currently serves as a child mentor within the Partnership to Educate and Advance Kids (PEAK).

Education

Bedi earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Marketing from Loyola University Chicago and a Juris Doctor from American University's Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., where he was a Marshall-Brennan Fellow and graduated with Exceptional Service Honors. After law school, he moved back to Chicago to begin his professional career in the corporate counsel's office of the International Truck and Engine Corporation.

Personal life

Jonathan Bedi is the son of a first-generation immigrant Sikh father from Punjab, India, Gurminder Singh Bedi, and an Irish-American mother, Tricia Bedi.

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