Though the couple have largely kept their romance under wraps since they reportedly began dating in 2016, they haven’t always shied away from public displays of affection.

1. Who Is Rashida Jones
Boyfriend All About Ezra
Koenig
Rashida Jones and Ezra Koenig have remained private about their
longtime relationship and parenthood.

2. Though the couple have largely kept their romance under wraps since
they reportedly began dating in 2016, they haven‟t always shied away
from public displays of affection.
At the Sundance Film Festival in 2017, the actress and Vampire
Weekend lead singer were reportedly “very comfortable together.” An
onlooker told, “ She was calling him „baby,‟ and after her interview at
the studio, she walked up to him and was hugging him.”
The two became first-time parents in 2018 when they welcomed a son
named Isaiah. Before their relationship blossomed, Jones spoke to The
Guardian in 2014 about her monthly advice column for Jezebel and
she opened up about relationships.
“I‟m totally obsessed with relationships, female friendships, romantic
relationships, all of it. It just fascinates me, thinking about what works,
what doesn‟t,” she said.
As for not being married and having kids, Jones was “happy” with her
circumstances at the time. “It‟s taken me a long time to get to a place
where I actually am OK with that,” she added.
So who is Rashida Jones‟ boyfriend? Here‟s everything to know about
Ezra Koenig and his relationship with the Parks and Recreationstar.
He is from New York City

3. Koenig is a New York native, and the city has significantly impacted his
life and music career.
“New York kind of feels like the country that my family originates
from,” Koenig told Variety in 2019. “There‟s something about the
Upper West Side, in particular, that‟s like the capital of that country —
a place of origin where I feel like I understand the history and the
archetypes pretty well.”

4. After his birth, on April 8, 1984, Ezra‟s parents moved their family to
Glen Ridge, New Jersey, where he grew up, according to Rolling Stone.
Upon finishing high school in the suburbs, Koenig returned to New
York City and attended Columbia University; he graduated in 2006,
per Columbia College Today.
He is the lead vocalist and guitarist of Vampire
Weekend

5. The same year he graduated, Koenig formed the Grammy Award-
winning indie rock band Vampire Weekend with three friends he met
at Columbia University.
Speaking in 2008, he revealed he came up with the name from a movie
he was creating inspired by The Lost Boys. Koenig also discussed how
the band was initially received.
“Our first six months, we mostly played campus events and parties. It
was hard to tell [if people liked us just] because they were our friends,”
he said.
Despite this, their popularity grew far beyond Columbia University.
Several years later, Vampire Weekend earned best alternative music
album at the Grammys two different times: Modern Vampires of the
City in 2014 and Father of the Bride in 2019. The group was also up for
two other nominations.
Koenig has worked on the soundtracks and scores of several films as
well, including I Love You, Man (2009), Boyhood (2014), Paper
Towns (2015), Peter Rabbit (2018), Booksmart (2019)
and Champions (2023).
He used to be a public school teacher

6. After graduating from Columbia University, Koenig joined the Teach
For America program and secured an eighth-grade English teacher
position at Junior High School 258 in Brooklyn.
“It was a pretty hectic lifestyle,” Koenig told MTV in 2008. “I mean,
[being a full-time musician] is a hectic lifestyle too, but to teach all day,
then go record or try to, you know, play a show, and then wake up and
go to work again was pretty difficult.”

7. Koenig left teaching in 2007 after Vampire Weekend signed a record
deal with XL Recordings.
He and Jones have a son together
On Aug. 22, 2018, Jones and Koenig welcomed a son, Isaiah, in Los
Angeles.

8. Jones described the time in their lives as “very emotionally intense,” as
the birth of Isaiah came just eight months before the death of her
mother and actress, Peggy Lipton.
“The thing that‟s the craziest about birth and death is just the utter
rawness of feeling,” Jones told NPR in 2021. “It‟s very binary, both
things — becoming a mother and losing my mother — like, there‟s my
life before, and there‟s my life after. And strangely, there‟s something
that‟s not recognizable before those two things happened.”
Jones has appeared as a guest on his radio show

10. Koenig hosts an online talk radio show called Time Crisis, which began
airing in 2015 on Apple Music‟s radio service Beats 1. According to the
show‟s description, Time Crisis covers various topics, from politics to
pop culture headlines, with episodes ranging from serious to not-so-
serious discussions.
Jones was one of the show‟s first guests in 2015, and she has
occasionally appeared throughout the years.
He and Jones are involved in politics

11. Koenig publicly supported Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders‟
presidential campaign in both 2016 and 2020, with appearances
and performances at multiple rallies throughout his candidacy.
Jones is also similarly involved in politics and has publicly campaigned
for Democratic Party candidates in multiple elections, dating back to
2004. She is known to be outspoken regarding her political convictions
and defended her stances in a 2016 speech given at her alma mater,
Harvard University.
“People tend to think it‟s annoying for celebrities to be vocal about
politics, but I don‟t care,” she said. “ There‟s too much to fight for. The
equality and respect that people before us have fought for and the laws
put in place to protect these things are at risk of slipping away.”

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