Raj Mukerji

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Raj Mukherji

Raj Mukerji is a New Jersey lobbyist, political consultant, and entrepreneur.

His partner in the influential lobbying firm Impact NJ, LLC is Michael Murphy, the former Morris County Prosecutor and candidate for Governor and stepson of the late two-term Governor and Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard J. Hughes.

Mukerji is a previous Director of Technology and Vice Chairman of the Publius Group, which owns the heavily trafficked political news source PoliticsNJ.com. Mukherji is also a real estate developer and was designated the Downtown Redeveloper in his hometown of Fanwood.^[1]

He has appeared on MTV’s Room Raiders, as a guest of Steve Adubato on PBS, interviewed by Bobby Rivers on FOX’s Good Day NY, appeared alongside legislators on Capitol Debates on TV Asia^[2], and was a co-panelist with former Governor DiFrancesco on the political talk show Inside Out.

He has performed on Broadway in A Christmas Carol.

He is a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.^[3]

1 Military and political service
2 Semper Fi Homes Foundation
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Military and political service

Mukherji has gained notoriety in New Jersey political circles as a “whiz kid” of sorts.^[4] He was on the cover of Business News NJ after the September 11 attacks for enlisting in the Marines at the age of 17 while he was a CEO of a technology company.^[5] He served in military intelligence and later, as a linguist in the reserve.^[6]

Mukherji was appointed by then-U.S. Senator Jon Corzine to his Military Academy Board in 2003. In 2004, then-Governor Jim McGreevey appointed him to the Governor’s Council on Volunteerism and Community Service.^[7] He was also a Superior Court-appointed member of the Juvenile Conference Committee. His leadership and community service efforts have been recognized as a recipient of the Daniel J. O’Hara Memorial Service Award and as an honoree of the local chapter of Optimist International. He was also selected to participate in the Junior Summit international forum conducted by the Media Laboratory at M.I.T.^[8]

[edit] Semper Fi Homes Foundation

Mukherji is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Semper Fi Homes Foundation, a nonprofit provider of new construction and home conversions for low-income disabled veterans.^[9]