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Mussab Ali (born 1997) is a Pakistani-American educator, activist, and politician. In 2017, he was the youngest person elected to the Jersey City Board of Education and later became the president.[1]
Early Life and Education
[edit]Mussab Ali was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and moved to Jersey City, New Jersey, with his family in 2000.[2] His mother taught in local schools and his father worked as a postal worker.[3] In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Ali's family experienced job loss and harassment which motivated his interest in civil rights.[4] Ali graduated from McNair Academic High School[5] and earned dual bachelor's degrees in economics and biology from Rutgers University in 2019, where he was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar in 2017.[4][6]
He completed a master's degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar.[7] In 2020, he enrolled at Harvard Law School[8] and was elected co‑president of its student government while also serving on the American Bar Association's Board of Governors. In 2022, he was also awarded a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans[2] and graduated from Harvard Law School in 2023.[9]
Early Career
[edit]In November 2017, he won an at-large seat at the Jersey City Board of Education by less than 60 votes[10] for a one-year unexpired term, thereby becoming the youngest elected official in Jersey City history and, at the time, the youngest Muslim elected official in America.[11][12][7] He received an official endorsement from the Jersey City Education Association.[6] In November 2018, he was re-elected, garnering nearly 23,000 votes. [13]
In April 2021, as president of the Jersey City Board of Education, Mussab Ali publicly condemned a teacher's racist[14] and profane remarks toward Black students, calling the behavior "completely unacceptable" and supporting the student who recorded the incident.[15][16]
2025 campaign for Mayor of Jersey City
[edit]He is a candidate in the 2025 Jersey City mayoral election.[17]
References
[edit]- ^ "A Conversation with Mussab Ali JD'23 on Law School, Politics, and Advocacy". Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ^ a b "Mussab Ali". Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ^ Romero, Adrienne J. (2024-06-12). "Mussab Ali Is Running For Jersey City Mayor And Is Calling On Young People To 'Step Up' And Make Their Voices Heard - slice of culture". Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ a b "Groundbreaking Rutgers-Newark Alumnus Mussab Ali Runs for Mayor of Jersey City". www.newark.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ^ "20-year-old elected to Jersey City school board". ABC7 New York. 2017-11-16. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ a b "Mussab Ali". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ^ a b "Mussab Ali | Winthrop House". winthrop.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-30.
- ^ Tully, Tracey (2024-01-10). "In Newark, 16-Year-Olds Win the Right to Vote in School Board Races". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2025-07-15.
- ^ Elamroussi, Aya (2022-05-01). "Young Muslim Americans hit turning points in Ramadan". CNN. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
- ^ NJTV News | Rutgers senior elected to Jersey City School Board | Season 2017. Retrieved 2025-08-01 – via www.pbs.org.
- ^ "Jersey City Public Schools elections (2017)". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ vote16usa (2024-01-09). "Vote16USA Welcomes Its First-Ever Director!". Vote16USA. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Mussab Ali". Rutgers Law School Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ "N.J. Teacher Suspended After Calling George Floyd a 'Criminal' (Published 2021)". 2021-05-01. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ Andrew, Alexandra Field,Scottie (2021-05-05). "A New Jersey high school teacher is filmed referring to George Floyd as a 'criminal' and cursing at students". CNN. Retrieved 2025-07-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "New Jersey teacher Howard Zlotkin suspended after going on profanity-laced rant, calling George Floyd a "criminal" - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. 2021-05-03. Retrieved 2025-08-01.
- ^ Journal, Joshua Rosario | The Jersey (2024-04-08). "Former school board president Mussab Ali files campaign paperwork to run for Jersey City mayor in 2025". nj. Retrieved 2025-06-30.