Waleed Shahid
American activist (born 1990 or 1991)
Waleed Shahid (born 1990 or 1991) is a political activist and strategist best known as the communications director and spokesperson for the Justice Democrats, where he held leadership roles on campaigns to elect progressive candidates such as Cori Bush, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, and others. He is also a co-writer of the Green New Deal, a proposed economic stimulus program. He is currently the deputy communications director for economic justice in the Mayoralty of Zohran Mamdani.
Early life
Waleed Shahid grew up in Arlington, Virginia to immigrant Punjabi Muslim parents from Lahore, Pakistan. His father is a parking garage manager and his mother is a retired special education teaching assistant. After 9/11, his parents advised him to never talk about politics because of concern for his safety. Shahid credits his teenage rebellion with going in the opposite direction. Shahid said his first political action was attending a protest against the Border Protection, Anti-terrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, which motivated him to organize a walk-out at his school.
Shahid graduated from Haverford College in 2013.
Dissent has described Shahid as "a pragmatic thinker who sees the limits of the U.S. electoral system while maintaining that progressive political transformation requires working within it."
Early career
After graduating from Haverford, Shahid began working for a nonprofit in Philadelphia providing social and legal services to immigrants and refugees.
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