Steve Barr (educational innovator)

Steve Barr
Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles
Personal details
Born	1959 (age 57–58)
Citizenship	American
Spouse(s)	Teresa Wierzbianska
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Education	University of California, Santa Barbara
Occupation	Educator Activist Author
Known for	Green Dot Public Schools (founder) Rock the Vote (co-founder) Future is Now (founder)

Steve Barr (born 1959) is an educator, activist, and author best known as a co-founder of Rock the Vote and founder of Green Dot Public Schools, a charter school organization in Los Angeles, California. Barr is also the founder of Future is Now Schools, a non-profit school organization that works on reforming schools from within.

On June 27, 2016, Steve Barr announced his candidacy for the 2017 Los Angeles mayoral election, challenging incumbent mayor Eric Garcetti.

Steve Barr was born in San Mateo, California in 1959. His father left the family when Barr was two years old. Barr and his younger brother were raised by a single mother. Barr spent his early childhood in Monterey, California where his mother worked as a dental assistant and as a cocktail waitress. At the age of six, Barr and his younger brother were placed in foster care for a year. In 1973, Barr's family moved to Cupertino, California where he and his brother attended Cupertino High School. At Cupertino High, Barr played on the basketball team and was elected student body president.

Barr attended community college and later transferred to University of California, Santa Barbara, where he graduated with a degree in political science. During his college years, Barr joined the Teamsters and worked as a truck loader at United Parcel Service. It was during this time that Barr became more politically active, founding the UCSB chapter of College Democrats and interning for then-governor Jerry Brown.

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