Zohran Mamdani

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani — born October 18, 1991, in Kampala, Uganda — is the 112th Mayor of New York City, having taken office on January 1, 2026. A democratic socialist, former New York State Assembly member, and son of filmmaker Mira Nair and academic Mahmood Mamdani, Mamdani pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in modern New York City history, defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo to win the Democratic primary in June 2025 before winning the general election in November.

Mamdani was born in Uganda to parents of Indian descent. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a prominent postcolonial scholar and professor at Columbia University; his mother, Mira Nair, is the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind Salaam Bombay!, Mississippi Masala, and Monsoon Wedding. Mamdani spent portions of his childhood in Uganda, Cape Town, and New York City, moving permanently to New York at age seven after his father joined Columbia’s faculty. He attended the Bank Street School for Children and the Bronx High School of Science before graduating from Bowdoin College in Maine in 2014 with a degree in Africana Studies.

After college, Mamdani worked as a community organizer, briefly pursued a rap career under the name Young Cardamom, and eventually became a foreclosure prevention counselor in Queens, helping low-income immigrant homeowners fight evictions. That work inspired him to run for office. In 2020, he defeated a five-term Democratic incumbent to represent Astoria and Long Island City in the New York State Assembly. He was reelected twice without opposition.

Mamdani became an American citizen in 2018. He is a Shia Muslim and, upon taking office, became New York City’s first Muslim mayor, first Asian American mayor, and its youngest mayor since 1892. He campaigned on a platform of rent freezes for stabilized tenants, fare-free buses, universal childcare, and city-owned grocery stores. His campaign attracted high-profile endorsements from Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. He was Google’s number-one trending person in the United States for 2025.

Mamdani married Syrian-American artist Rama Duwaji in early 2025. He resides modestly in Astoria, Queens, commutes by subway, and lists no major assets aside from a parcel of undeveloped land in Uganda. His net worth is estimated at approximately $200,000, making him one of the least wealthy mayors in New York City’s modern history.

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