Zulfat Suara migrated to the United States from Nigeria in 1993, and was in Nashville by 1998. a certified accountant running on higher wages, school funding and participatory budgeting; She’s a mom with kids at Harvard, Yale, Vanderbilt, and UPenn Read zulfat suara biography
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Zulfat Suara was the first ever Muslim woman to have ever run for any position in the state of Tennessee. Suara’s mom is christian, she contested in 2014 in Bolivar, Tenn, for school board, in fact, the first one to run for anything.She ran before Trump because according to her, “I felt there was a need to add my voice to that conversation.”
Right now she’s the first one in Davidson County to run, but if elected, she’ll actually be the first Muslim, male or female, in the entire state as far as we know. There might be some history that we’re missing, but as far as we know.
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Zulfat Suara used to be an auditor at Meharry. Meharry brought her back as a consultant, According to her, “I was going back and forth [form Bolivar] for many years”, but then in 2015, Meharry re-employed her and she finally moved back to Nashville in 2015.
There was six months in 2001 and 2002 when my husband and I didn’t have a job, and it was the people in this town that actually helped us pay our bills. People at KPMG gave me a loan as personal friends that made it possible for us not to get kicked out of our home. We could have lost our home; we could have ended up on the streets. For that there’s a deep sense of gratitude and I do want to give back.
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Zulfat Suara, originally from Nigeria is a CPA, small business founder, a mother and a wife, a community leader and chairperson of the American Muslim Advisory Council, She contested for one of the five Nashville Metro Council advanced seats in Tennessee on August 1 2019, Suara is also running in the general runoff election on September 12, 2019, after advancing from the general election on August 1.
