Zohran Mamdani has been confirmed because the Democratic candidate for New York Metropolis mayor.
The 33-year-old is on the cusp of creating historical past as the primary Muslim and millennial mayor of the Large Apple, one of the numerous cities on the earth.
FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT ZOHRAN MAMDANI
Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, raised briefly Cape City post-apartheid and later moved to New York when he was seven.
His father Mahmood Mamdani is a famend writer and scholar who additionally served as a professor of the Centre for African Research on the College of Cape City between 1996 and 1999. His mom, Mira Nair can be a famend movie director.
He’s a graduate of the New York Metropolis Public College System; he attended the Bronx Excessive College of Science and obtained a Bachelor’s Diploma in Africana Research from Bowdoin Faculty.
In 2018, Zohran turned naturalised as an American citizen and is proud to be the primary South Asian man to serve within the New York State Meeting in addition to the primary Ugandan and solely the third Muslim to ever be a member of the physique.
WHAT DOES HE ADVOCATE FOR?
In keeping with the New York State Meeting authorities web site, Zohran fights daily for a future the place each New Yorker lives a dignified life and the place the market doesn’t decide the distribution of that dignity.
Moreover, Mamdani says he’s working for mayor to freeze lease, make buses quick and free, and ship free common childcare.
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