Brussels Forum Session: Delivering Democracy at the Local Level
Zaynab Mohamed has been a state senator in Minnesota since 2023. She is the vice chair of the Jobs and Economic Development Committee and a member of Capital Investment, Finance, Housing and Homelessness Prevention, and Human Services committees.
Mohamed previously worked at Ayada Leads, a nonprofit dedicated to elevating Black immigrant women into political and civic participation, and as the community advocacy director at the Council of American Islamic Relations. In the latter position, she worked with a coalition of advocates, organizers, legislators, and families who had lost loved ones to police violence to lobby state legislators to pass eight bills to expand public safety and strengthen police accountability.
Mohamed emigrated from Somalia to the United States when she was nine years old.