James Skoufis, born October 18, 1987, in Flushing, Queens, is an American politician and a member of the Democratic Party. His family moved to the town of Woodbury in the Hudson Valley in 1995. He graduated from Monroe-Woodbury High School in 2005 and holds a bachelor's degree from The George Washington University and a master's from Columbia University. Skoufis began his political career serving on the Woodbury town board in Orange County.