Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, was born in Kampala, Uganda in 1991. He moved to the United States as a child and grew up in Manhattan, later attending Bowdoin College in Maine. He is of Ugandan-Indian descent through his family and is the son of noted academic Mahmood Mamdani and filmmaker Mira Nair. This birth detail is often highlighted in coverage of his rise to office and helps explain questions about eligibility for certain offices, including presidential eligibility. If you’d like, I can pull up the latest sources or provide a brief timeline of his path to the mayoralty.
