Zohran Kwame Mamdani[c] (born October 18, 1991) is an American politician and the mayor-elect of New York City. A member of the Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America, he has served as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 36th district since 2021, representing the Queens neighborhood of Astoria.

Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, to academic Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair, both of whom are of Indian descent. After spending three years in Cape Town, South Africa, when Mamdani was five to seven years old, the family moved to the United States, settling in New York. Mamdani graduated from the Bronx High School of Science before receiving a bachelor's degree with a major in Africana studies from Bowdoin College in 2014.

After working as a housing counselor and musician, Mamdani entered local New York City politics as a campaign manager for Khader El-Yateem and Ross Barkan. He was first elected to the New York State Assembly in 2020, defeating five-term incumbent Aravella Simotas in the Democratic primary. Representing Astoria, Queens, he was reelected without opposition in 2022 and 2024.

In October 2024, Mamdani announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City in the 2025 election. He campaigned on an affordability-focused platform in support of fare-free city buses, universal public child care, city-owned grocery stores, a rent freeze on rent-stabilized units, additional affordable housing units, and a $30 minimum wage by 2030. He also expressed support for LGBTQ rights, comprehensive public safety reform, and tax increases on corporations and those earning above $1 million annually. He won the Democratic primary in June 2025, defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo in an upset, and was elected mayor in the November general election. He is set to become the city's first Muslim and Indian-Ugandan mayor.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani was born on October 18, 1991, in Kampala, Uganda, the only child of postcolonialist academic Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair.[16][17] He was given his middle name, Kwame, by his father in honor of Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana.[18][19] Both his parents are of Indian descent;[20] his father is a Gujarati Shia Muslim of the Khoja community who was born in Mumbai and grew up primarily in Uganda,[21][22] and his mother is a Punjabi Hindu[23][24][25] who was born in Rourkela and raised in Bhubaneswar.[26] His paternal grandparents were born in present-day Tanzania and his father's family was part of the Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa.[22] His maternal grandfather, Amrit Lal Nair, was a former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer[27] and his maternal grandmother Praveen Nair was a social worker and founder of the Salaam Baalak Trust in India.[28]

Mamdani lived in Kampala until he was five, when his family moved to Cape Town, in South Africa's Western Cape province,[16] after his father was appointed head of African studies at the University of Cape Town.[29] He attended St. George's Grammar School in Mowbray from 1996 to 1998,[19][30] during the early post-apartheid years. He later said that the experience of living in Cape Town "taught me what inequality looks like up close ... [and] that justice has to be more than an idea; it has to be material".[31]

The family moved to the United States and settled in New York City when Mamdani was seven,[32] and he was raised in Morningside Heights.[33] He has described his upbringing as "privileged", saying, "I never had to want for something, and yet I knew that was not in any way the reality for most New Yorkers."[34] As a child, he was often present on his mother's film sets, where he was loved by members of the film crews, who variously referred to him as "Z", "Zoru", "Fadoose", and "Nonstop Mamdani".[29]

Mamdani attended the Bank Street School for Children on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he successfully ran as the independent candidate in a middle school mock election, adopting a platform of "equal rights, anti-war [policy] that proposed spending money on education rather than the military".[35] In 2003, he returned to Kampala for a year and attended school during his father's sabbatical there;[22] his paternal grandparents and aunt still live there and helped take care of him while his father was working on the book Good Muslim, Bad Muslim.[36]

In 2010, Mamdani graduated from the Bronx High School of Science[37][38] in Kingsbridge Heights,[39] where he co-founded the school's first cricket team[17] and unsuccessfully ran for student body vice president.[40] He also played soccer with the West Side Soccer League.[39] Mamdani then attended Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he co-founded the school's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.[41][42] He was a regular contributor for campus newspaper The Bowdoin Orient, covering politics, culture, and sports via his column titled Kwame's Kolumnalu.[43] In January 2014, he co-authored an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News, urging Bowdoin to join the American Studies Association's boycott of Israel and criticizing college president Barry Mills.[44] He graduated in 2014 with a bachelor's degree and a major in Africana studies.[41][42]

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