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 – “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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