Sadaf Jaffer is an elected official, scholar, and activist. She was first elected to the Montgomery Township Committee in 2017. In January of 2019, she was sworn in as mayor, becoming the first South Asian woman to serve as mayor of a municipality in New Jersey, and the first Muslim woman to serve as the mayor of a municipality in the United States. She has focused her administration on good governance and increased transparency, communication, diversity, and inclusion. She founded Montgomery Mosaic, a group allied with the national Not In Our Town (NIOT) movement, to combat prejudice and build connections throughout the community. Dr. Jaffer is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University where she teaches courses on South Asian, Islamic, and Asian American Studies.
Jaffer 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. Jaffer earned her bachelor’s degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and obtained her PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University with a secondary field in studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. She is bilingual in Urdu and English, and proficient in Hindi, French, Persian and Arabic.
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