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Lateefah Simon
American activist (born 1977)
Lateefah Aaliyah Simon[1] (born January 29, 1977) is an American politician who is the U.S.
representative for California's 12th congressional district since January 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, She is the first member of congress known to be congenital blind in both eyes, and the first Muslim member from California and outside of the Midwestern U.S.[2][3]
She served on the Bay Area Rapid Transit board of directors[4] and on the board of trustees of the California State University system.[5] She served as a trustee of the San Francisco Foundation and president of MeadowFund, a community investment fund created by Patricia Quillin, the wife of Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, and was president of Akonadi Foundation, an organization focused on racial justice in Oakland, California.[6][7]In 2003, she became the youngest woman to receive MacArthur Fellows