Jahana Hayes

Jahana Hayes has the kind of biography I find genuinely moving. A National Teacher of the Year who then ran for Congress and won, she carries the classroom into the Capitol, and that lived experience matters to me more than any party label. Representing Connecticut's 5th district, she brings the perspective of someone who spent years listening to students and families rather than donors. I tend to trust politicians who arrived through service rather than ambition alone, and Hayes reads as exactly that. Whatever one's politics, there's something hopeful about an educator deciding the best lesson she could teach was civic participation itself.

Name (English)

Jahana Hayes

Name (Japanese)

ジャハナ・ヘイズ

Reading

じゃはな・へいず

Born

March 8, 1973 (age 53)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Ox

Origin

Waterbury, Connecticut, United States

Occupation

politician / teacher

University

Southern Connecticut State University

• Official sitehttps://www.jahanahayes.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/realjahanahayes/
• Xhttps://x.com/JahanaHayesCT
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahana%20Hayes
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24951316

Tags

• Connecticut
• politician
• teacher

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.