Bangladeshi-origin Zara Rahim joins Mamdani's all-female transition team
Rahim, who has been serving as a senior adviser to Mamdani since February 2025, joins a diverse group of women including Maya Handa, Tascha Van Auken, and Faiza Ali, all of whom played key roles in Mamdani’s decisive campaign victory.
Bangladeshi-origin communications strategist Zara Rahim has been included in New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's all-female transition team, which will guide his administration as he prepares to take office on 1 January 2026.
Rahim, who has been serving as a senior adviser to Mamdani since February 2025, joins a diverse group of women including Maya Handa, Tascha Van Auken, and Faiza Ali, all of whom played key roles in Mamdani's decisive campaign victory on Tuesday night, according to media reports.
A first-generation American raised in South Florida, Rahim is the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants who moved to the United States in the early 1980s.
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Before joining Mamdani's campaign, she worked under Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus at the Yunus Centre, later joining former US president Barack Obama's 2012 reelection campaign as Florida's Digital Content Director.
She went on to serve in the White House Office of Digital Strategy and held senior communications roles at Uber, Vogue, and The Wing, in addition to working on Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
