SAFE Podcast – SAFE Podcast host Edward Hung interviews New York City Council Member Shahana Hanif, who represents the 39th District in Brooklyn. The daughter of Bangladeshi Muslim immigrants, Council Member Hanif discusses her priorities as she chairs the Council’s Committee on Immigration [Listen Here].
Gotham Gazette – “This is absolutely critical for us to center immigrant communities especially through…the impact that the pandemic has had on our immigrant communities,” said City Council Member Shahana Hanif, a Brooklyn Democrat who chairs the Council’s immigration committee. Hanif also co-chairs the Council’s progressive caucus, for whom implementing the law is a top priority. “We ought to be a city that is forthright about expanding democracy and making it more representative and ‘Our City, Our Vote’ is the path forward,” she said [Read More].
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Gotham Gazette – New York City Council Progressive Caucus Co-Chairs Shahana Hanif and Lincoln Restler joined the show to discuss the formation of the caucus in the new class of City Council members, its membership and priorities, and their stances on a number of key issues [Listen Here].
ABC News – ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks to New York City Council Member Shahana Hanif about the subway shooting in Brooklyn impacting her community, and what the city should do to curb violence [Watch Here].
The Brown Girls Guide to Politics – “When today’s guest, NYC Councilmember Shahana Hanif, ran for office, she knew it wasn’t going to be an easy job. So, she reframed the campaign– her race wasn’t just a job, it was a commitment to her city. A commitment to the neighborhood that raised her. Shahana, AKA Shahana from BK, is the first Muslim woman elected to New York City Council and the first woman Council Member for the 39th District.
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Patch – “Since COVID-19 hit New York City, women, and especially women of color, have been forced to bear the brunt of the economic and emotional toll,’ said Park Slope City Council Member Shahana Hanif, pointing to a first-of-its-kind report concurrently released by Council Member Tiffany Cabán and City Comptroller Brad Lander, which analyzes the gendered impacts of the pandemic in NYC and outlines policy changes that would promote a feminist recovery.
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Gotham Gazette – “Among a series of March hearings held by the Council on Mayor Adams’ $98.5 billion preliminary budget plan, representatives from the Mayor’s Office on Immigrant Affairs (MOIA) and advocates appeared before Council members to discuss the allocation of resources to the city’s different programs designed to support and empower immigrant communities. The hearing was led by Council Member Shahana Hanif, a recently-elected Brooklyn Democrat who chairs the Council’s Committee on Immigration.
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Patch – “A Park Slope leader joined immigrant rights advocates speaking out against Mayor Eric Adams’ choice to appoint a former City Council Member, whose been criticized for cultural insensitivity, to his administration. ‘I cannot in good conscience support someone who has made comments pitting one group against another or someone who has actively fought in the Council to restrict the rights of immigrants,’
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Middle East Eye – “Hanif, who later called on Miller to be fired, told MEE she was dismayed that he refused to accept the intrusive and destructive effect surveillance had on the Muslim community. ‘The police department conducted this entrapment, this racial profiling and sent informants into our communities to target and violate innocent, innocent people,’ Hanif said.
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Daily News – “Democratic Brooklyn Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, whose questioning of Miller prompted his comments at the hearing, told the Daily News on Monday that his testimony made her ‘blood boil.’ ‘Under oath, this man tried to erase the traumas that we’ve experienced as a community,’ said Hanif, who became the first female Muslim member of the Council when elected in November.
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