NYC Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani employed a brand new marketing campaign supervisor as he builds out his group for the November common election, the marketing campaign introduced Friday.
Maya Handa, who ran State Sen. Zellnor Myrie’s mayoral bid earlier this 12 months, would be the candidate’s marketing campaign supervisor.
Elle Bisgaard-Church, who beforehand held that position within the Mamdani marketing campaign, will develop into chief adviser to Mamdani.
“I’m incredibly proud of the historic campaign we ran in the primary,” Bisgaard-Church mentioned in a press release. “While our focus now is singularly to ensure Zohran is elected as the next mayor of New York City, I’m excited to take on this new role and continue building toward the future.”
Handa has expertise on the nationwide stage, having beforehand labored on Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential marketing campaign. She additionally labored on Rep. Mondaire Jones’ congressional marketing campaign, India Walton’s mayoral marketing campaign in Buffalo and for the Working Households Celebration.
Lots of the marketing campaign’s latest new hires have labored on nationwide campaigns in distinction to Mamdani’s main group, which was led by Albany insiders like Bisgaard-Church.
Afua Atta-Mensah, a neighborhood strategist and advocate, would be the marketing campaign’s political director, and Deandra Khan, who was beforehand an advisor to the president of service employees union 32BJ, would be the director of labor and intergovernmental affairs.
The marketing campaign beforehand introduced new hires to its communications group, together with new Press Secretary Dora Pekec, who beforehand did comms for Brad Lander’s mayoral marketing campaign, and new Communications Director Jeffrey Lerner, the previous political director of the Democratic Nationwide Committee.
Initially Revealed: July 25, 2025 at 12:58 PM EDT
