Sadaf F Jaffer was born on February 19,1983 and is an American scholar and elected official who has represented the 16th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since taking office on January 11,2022.
11 Facts About Sadaf Jaffer
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Sadaf Jaffer is a postdoctoral research associate at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
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Sadaf Jaffer was first elected to Montgomery's Township Committee in 2017.
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Sadaf Jaffer was born in Chicago to South Asian Muslim immigrants.
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Sadaf Jaffer's mother was born in Pakistan and her father was born in Yemen.
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Sadaf Jaffer's ancestors are originally from the Kutch region of western India.
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Sadaf Jaffer attended the Latin School of Chicago, earned a bachelor's degree from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and a PhD at Harvard University.
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In 2011, Sadaf Jaffer married Daniel Sheffield, an assistant professor in the Near Eastern Studies department at Princeton.
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In 2016, Sadaf Jaffer launched an unsuccessful write-in campaign for Montgomery Township Committee.
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Sadaf Jaffer was sworn in on January 3,2019, becoming the first woman of South Asian descent to serve as mayor of a town in New Jersey, and the first Muslim woman to serve as a mayor in the United States.
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Sadaf Jaffer ran for New Jersey General Assembly in the 16th district after incumbent Andrew Zwicker decided to run for New Jersey State Senate.