Shahana Hanif is a Kensington-born and raised daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants running to represent Brooklyn’s 39th District in the New York City Council.

Shahana knows first hand the problems facing our communities. She is a product of public schools having attended P.S. 230 and Brooklyn College, she’s an activist, community organizer, and public servant building with neighbors on our most local fights every day. Most recently she served as the Director of Organizing and Community Engagement in Councilmember Brad Lander’s office where she led grassroots initiatives like Participatory Budgeting, a process that gives NYers a say in how to spend City dollars in their neighborhoods.

If elected, she will be both the first Muslim woman and the first South Asian person elected to New York City Council and will be our District’s first woman Councilmember.