Alan Kennedy-Shaffer is a candidate for Colorado State Senate.

Kennedy-Shaffer is a PhD. student at University of Colorado Denver in Public Affairs. He is also a graduate of William & Mary Law School and Yale University.

Kennedy-Shaffer is also a Captain in the United States Army National Guard.

Kennedy-Shaffer is author of The Obama Revolution, a book about the 2008 Barack Obama Presidential campaign. The audio version of the book is read by Rider Strong, of Boy Meets World fame. ^[1]

In September 2017, Kennedy-Shaffer and Morgan Carroll, the 2016 Democratic nominee in Colorado's 6th congressional district, represented Community College of Denver student Zakaria Hagig in a lawsuit against President Donald Trump's travel ban.