'Politics is to Give Power Back' EP: 111 - Part 1

What a wonderful conversation with a brilliant Mayor and Professor, Sadaf Jaffer. A caring and empathetic person. We need more people like her who are a gift for our country and a role model for young girls and boys all over the world.

• She is the Mayor of Montgomery Township , New Jersey
• Supporting other candidates and creating space for other people
• How she balances her Mayoral work and her teaching at Princeton University
• Work life balance
• Her challenges as a child of immigrant, woman of color and a Muslim
• Her parenting style

To learn more about her, visit her website:

https://www.sadafjaffer.com/

Bio:

Sadaf Jaffer is a scholar, activist, and elected official. Dr. Jaffer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University where she teaches courses on South Asian, Islamic, and Asian American Studies. She has published articles in the Journal of Women's History, as well as the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Huffington Post, and Altmuslimah blogs.

Dr. Jaffer is also the mayor of Montgomery Township, New Jersey where she has focused her administration on good governance and increased transparency, communications, diversity, and inclusivity. Mayor Jaffer has been especially involved in work to combat prejudice and build connections throughout the community. In her first year on Township Committee she founded Montgomery Mosaic, a group allied with the national Not In Our Town (NIOT) movement.

She serves on the board of directors for The New Agenda, an organization that promotes women's economic empowerment and combats sexual harassment and sexual assault. She is on the advisory board of Inspiring South Asian American Women (ISAAW), a group dedicated to encouraging civic engagement among South Asian American women in New Jersey. She is also on the advisory board of ARTE: Art and Resistance through Education, a non-profit that promotes human rights education and youth development through the arts.

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