John McCarthy was born and raised in Monmouth County, N.J. Elected at age 19, he currently serves as the Chairman of the Keansburg Democratic Executive Committee. At the time of his election, he was the youngest elected Municipal Chairman in the State of New Jersey. He serves on the Executive committee of the Monmouth County Democrats, as well as their candidate recruitment, finance, and events committee.

He currently serves in the nonprofit sector as the Chief Executive Officer of Future Civic Leaders, a 501(c)3, non-partisan organization working to bridge the civic education performance gap amongst students from low-income communities. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Bayshore Senior Health, Education, and Recreation Center, a one-of-a-kind day care facility for senior citizens in the Bayshore Region of New Jersey. He is the Chairman of their Development Committee.

A musician also, he has served as the Director of Music for Saint Ann’s Roman Catholic Church, Keansburg; Associate Music Minister at Saint James Roman Catholic Church, Red Bank, N.J.; and the Former Music Director of the First United Methodist Church in Keansburg. He also works as a musical accompanist at the Count Basie Theater, Red Bank.

He currently studies Politics and Theology at The Catholic University of America, the official university of the Catholic Church in the United States. There he is the Chairman of the Catholic University of America College Democrats, where he has organized lecture series on the intersection of Faith and Politics. He is the National Faith Caucus Chair for the College Democrats of America, the official youth arm of the Democratic National Committee.

He has been interviewed by Fox & Friends, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside HigherEd, NPR, and the Washington Post about bipartisanship in politics. He loves nothing more than the state of New Jersey and thinks it’s hilarious that this bio is written in the third person.