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Lateefah Simon | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 12th district | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Barbara Lee |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lateefah Aaliyah Simon January 29, 1977 San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse |
Kevin Weston
(m. 2012; died 2014) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Mills College (BA) University of San Francisco (MPA) |
| Website | House website |
Lateefah Aaliyah Simon[1] (born January 29, 1977) is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for California's 12th congressional district since January 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first member of congress known to be congenital blind in both eyes, and the first Muslim member from California and outside of the Midwestern U.S.[2][3]
She served on the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors[4] and on the board of trustees of the California State University system.[5] She served as a trustee of the San Francisco Foundation and president of MeadowFund, a community investment fund created by Patricia Quillin, the wife of Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, and was president of Akonadi Foundation, an organization focused on racial justice in Oakland, California.[6][7]In 2003, she became the youngest woman to receive MacArthur Fellowship for her leadership of the Center for Young Women's Development (now the Young Women's Freedom Center) in San Francisco at the age of 19.[8][9]
- ^ "Rep. Lateefah Simon - D California, 12th - Biography". LegiStorm. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ^ Michaels, Samantha. "Lateefah Simon, on track to be a new House Dem: "I've never shied away from any fight"". Mother Jones. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
- ^ "CAIR Action Congratulates Lateefah Simon on Historic Victory as First Muslim Elected to Congress from California". CAIR Action. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
- ^ "Board of Directors | Bay Area Rapid Transit". web.archive.org. February 1, 2024. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- ^ "Lateefah Simon". web.archive.org. November 13, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2024.
- ^ "Lateefah Simon, President". Akonadi Foundation. Retrieved March 21, 2017.
- ^ "This High Achiever Aims Higher Still | University of San Francisco". www.usfca.edu. January 20, 2025. Retrieved January 20, 2025.
- ^ "Three Blacks Named MacArthur Fellows for 2003 Awarded $500,000 'Genius Grants'". Jet. October 27, 2003. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
- ^ "Lateefah Simon". MacArthur Foundation. October 5, 2003. Retrieved March 21, 2017.