Middlebury Alum Pens Speeches for NYC Mayor Mamdani
March 19, 2026·about 3 hours ago·via The Middlebury Campus

A Middlebury College alumnus crafts speeches for Zohran Mamdani, New York City's incoming mayor who takes office January 1 as the youngest in over a century, first Muslim, South Asian, and African-born leader. The 34-year-old Uganda native, naturalized in 2018 after moving to NYC at age 7, defeated Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa with a democratic socialist platform promising free child care, city-run grocery stores, and a housing overhaul amid affordability woes. Read more about this...